THEATER: Outland (Melbourne)
FROM the glittering mirror ball that flamboyant Melbourne DJ Adam Richard uses for a brain (with writer John Richards) comes Outland, an outrageous six-part comedy about a gay science-fiction fan club. Richard plays the very camp Fab as someone we all know (probably a 15-year-old girl) in an original comic creation as broad and irreverent as Matt Lucas’s Vicky Pollard. Toby Truslove (Laid) plays the more down-to-earth but highly anxious Max, who heads home with a hot date, only to be visited by the entire fan club. Fab, presented as a kind of sci-fi monster himself (thanks to the soundtrack), … Read more