MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL
GERALDINE QUINN: FOX PONCING ★★★½
Malthouse Theatre
Until April 8
Fox Poncing sees Geraldine Quinn whacked with the shit shtick. She regales us with tales of artistically arranged dog poo at the Edinburgh Festival, and gripes about the tinny loop of Fur Elise that Centrelink uses for hold music (she'd prefer, given the waiting times involved, the entirety of Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique).
![Geraldine Quinn's Fox Poncing includes a spoof of Broadway show tunes.](/web/20170406120451im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/b/t/4/4/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gvbt2m.png/1491367626371.jpg)
If that gives you a sense of her musical literacy, Quinn's talent as a songwriter – and she's at least the equal of Eddie Perfect or Tim Minchin – is what makes her stand out from the crowd. Quinn only writes bangers; her songs are almost too good for pop parody.
Highlights include a roof-raising spoof of Broadway show tunes, laying bare the big egos and unwritten rules of musical theatre, and a piss-funny lampoon of Triple J's Unearthed, with its faux-angst and lack of originality.
It's a witty and musically eclectic show, with everything from high-concept electro to a melancholy ballad on the plight of Australian artists written, one suspects, from the black hole of George Brandis' arts policy.
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