Review: Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Adelaide Festival)
This darkly comic one-hander about a neurotic, fatalistic gay comedian is reminiscent of Flea Bag and Baby Reindeer.
Patricia Maunder has been an arts journalist since the 1990s, interviewing the likes of Sir Andrew Davis and Renée Fleming, and contributing to publications such as The Age and Opera (UK). Based in Melbourne, she’s passionate about opera, theatre and anything Baroque.
This darkly comic one-hander about a neurotic, fatalistic gay comedian is reminiscent of Flea Bag and Baby Reindeer.
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