Richard McKenzie: A Sting in the Tale - Fringe World 2016
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Tue 16 Feb 2016 - Sat 20 Feb 2016
Richard McKenzie's is a regular at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and has worked with Adam Hills, Dave Hughes, Ross Noble and is a member of the "Anarchist Guild Social Committee" - a performing sketch comedy group.
Richard McKenzie is a storyteller and A Sting in the Tale is a light, humorous, personal narrative about his own relationship with his father. Richard McKenzie delivers on the art of comedic art story telling and there is delight to be found in the listening to his humourous memories that will evoke emotion.
From the beginning, the audience become the story listeners and those at The Flaming Locomotive were eager to engage. Richard McKenzie style (akin to the idiom - a sting in the tale) is much like the humble bumble bee, he seems to lightly hoover from one short story to the next, collecting for you an image of his father that paints the man. Through the telling of those recollections it becomes obvious that his father did not tell him how to live but rather, that his father lived, and showed Richard and his brothers how that is done. Richard's narrative, through those words, teaches his audience to love his father. But, as with the idiom A Sting in the Tale, you know sooner or later one of the stories is going to have an unpleasant ending. Despite that listeners building expectation, Richard is clever in retaining the unexpectedness of when and where and in which story that bite is going to occur.
The art of comedic story telling is not about a collection of gags, nor is about maintaining the laughter at hilarious levels where the jokes enviably become more important than the overall theme. Rather, Richard McKenzie – A Sting in the Taleis in line with the art of storytelling and is a humorous journey that tells stories about a man life worth your listening to.
And within the tradition of oral storytelling, the stories told are smaller versions of the longer story now available in a book. I suspect that book a very good read.
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