Comedy twins nerd it out
DUBBO’S inaugural Fringe Festival is set to provide a diverse lineup of niche entertainment events and two of those shows promise to provide laughs for plenty of locals.
Up the Nerdsville Track is one case in point – think of a psychedelic road trip with a nerd as your guide, complete with soundtrack and slide show.
Clark Gormley presents a oneman barrage of facts and inaccuracies related to this wide brown land and his outback odyssey includes studies of linguistics, etymology, cartography and a rigorous proof by free association. The show also incorporates original nerdy songs and poetry.
The show has been described by musician Andrew Clermont as the un-mapping of Australia, somewhere between John Clark, The Castle and John Cleese.
Up the Nerdsville Track will play at Wesley Hall on Thursday, May 6 from 6pm as well as two slots at the Pastoral Hotel, Friday and Saturday May 7 and 8, also from 6pm.
Clark Gormley also features in Failure to Launch alongside Robert Edmonds and the duo performs funny songs and witty and award-winning poetry but ponder as to why they can’t get their books off the ground.
Robert Edmonds is a writer/comic performer whose poetry has been published many times and has been nominated for and won prizes, but Gravity Doesn’t Always Work is his first collection.
Clark Gormley is a writer/singer/comedian who has performed one-man comedy shows and written three albums worth of songs for Nerds and Music, but his poetry collection Not What You Think deserves a bigger audience.
Watch them perform their best work of a lifetime over 60 funfilled and story-packed minutes at the Pastoral Hotel on Saturday, May 8 from 3pm.
For tickets go to: www.123tix.com.au/events/dubbofringe