A Starr turn at Spiegelfest
One of the final shows of New Plymouth’s Spiegelfest got its start with a ‘‘terrible’’ undersized black leather jacket.
Upon seeing him wearing it a friend remarked he was ‘‘just a Garry’’ and just like that Melbourne comedian Damien Warren-smith’s clown alter-ego Garry Starr was born.
Coming directly from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Warren-smith said he was excited to bring his ‘‘internationally renowned idiot’’ to the Spiegeltent with his Garry Starr Performs Everything one-man show.
Warren-smith has been performing the show for a number of years and his character is renowned for his lack of inhibition and abundance of confidence.
‘‘Garry has high status, but low intelligence, and so he will place himself above the audience, but then he will use the wrong words,’’ the actor explained.
Close to 3000 people have attended events in the Spiegeltent since the Taranaki festival began on November 10.
Garry Starr Performs Everything, 9pm on Saturday and 5pm on at the Pacific Crystal Palace Spiegeltent.