When the Sex is Gone - Reviews from the web
Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:18PM 
UPDATED 14th April 2010:
Press reviews from 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Via Australia Stage
Outstanding entertainment. Original, compelling, innovative and different. Very different. Exquisitely written and performed, When the Sex is Gone takes you on several familiar and less familiar travels deep into the darkened alleys and valleys of lust.
Don’t be fooled, this isn’t a clichéd high burlesque version of turn of the century decadence – it is scabrous, filthy, stylish cabaret. The writing stuns and the songs are fine, extraordinarily rude and tuneful.
Click here to read the entire review by Liz Dezfouli
Via The Age
A VULGAR, vivacious cabaret, this is the story of two personalities inhabiting the one hermaphroditic body: Charlie, a foul-mouthed stripper who describes her multi-gendered body as something Picasso might have painted in his abstract years; and Alastair, an aggressive young boxer (and the slightly less engaging of the two). …. Bradson is compelling, confident and totally owned the stage. A brilliant show, though not for the easily offended.
Click here to read the entire review by Richard Watts.
Via The Pun
This cabaret is not for the faint-hearted. It’s raw, gritty, littered with expletives and pulsates with a soundtrack intended to shock. But this is why I loved it. The dialogue is poetic, the score is melodic and Bradson’s performance is nothing short of astounding. His energy creates an almost threatening atmosphere, and it’s a wonderful thing to be so convinced by a character that you believe they may drag you off into a land of debauchery.
Click here to read the entire review by Caroline Buckle.
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Other cabaret reviews from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival:
Carl-Einar Hackner: Big in Sweden
I Heart Frankston: the Musical
Sveta Dobranoch and The Brown Bears - From Russia with Lust
The Bedroom Philosopher: Songs from the 86 Tram
Sing Us a Song, You’re the Piano, Anne
Geraldine Quinn: Shut Up and Sing
Press reviews from 2010 Adelaide Fringe Festival:
From Glam Adelaide
Tommy Bradson has written and performs a dark, alluring comical cabaret that explores the sleazy, erotic lives of an hermaphrodite living a dual life as stripper Charlie Martini and boxer Alastair Astaire.
Accompanied by quirky keyboardist and vocalist Boris (the exceptional Jacqueline Morton who also composed the songs), they have created a fascinating adults-only comedy that pushes more than a few boundaries.
Bradson is simply superb. He has an extraordinary voice, is an exceptional actor, and looks good as both a babe and a bruiser. He responds confidently with adlibs to his environment and audience, and manages to be both engaging and dangerous at the same time.
Read the rest of the review by Rod Lewis here.
“When the Sex is Gone” is styled “a theatrical portrait of eroticism”. What is fails to add is that it is one of the most confronting, absorbing, original, very funny, very wicked, very clever, very dark, sexual seventy minutes you are ever likely to spend anywhere! Here read “The Spare Room, Garden of Unearthly Delights”.
Tommy Bradson has written this and his performance as a hermaphroditic Drag Queen never misses a beat or an opportunity. This boy is always in control and the audience laughs, hoots, gasps and applauds throughout the performance, including this reviewer who confesses he’s not a fan of ubiquitous drag.
Read the rest of the review by Richard Flynn here.
From Adelaide Now
With a backup pianist-come-singer and a practically packed house, Tommy Bradson blew his audience away with his versatile vocals, original forlorn songs and story-telling eyes.
Read the rest of the review by Hannah Silverman here.
From Talk Fringe
Read the audience’s comments here.
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