Sunday 17th April 2016 - 8:45 pm

I arrived to Tommy Dassalo’s show having left Felicity Ward’s show early, well I walked out of it early, not just to get to Tommy’s show.

“Little Golden Dassalo” is something different from Dasslo’s other shows from previous years, although in some ways there is a theatricality to this show that in little parts has built from previous shows in the past.

I think it was in his 2014 show “Dreamboat” which he also had a bit of audience interaction in them throwing stuff at him near the end.

In this show there is a whole book for people to read with along while he performs his show. I admire his confidence to give people a book to read while he performs, as surely that would mean that people aren’t giving him their utmost attention, if they’re looking down at the book.

In some parts I already knew the story behind the story of this show, because Tommy had talked about it in various bits and pieces on his podcast “The Little Dum Dum Club”. But the podcast in retrospect was like the ‘special features’ to this show. I already knew some of the stuff that was being performed, but here in his show Tommy has crafted and scripted and polished into a narrative story of its own.

I really enjoyed Tommy Dassalo’s show, for the comedy, for the humour and for the theatricality that it had, this theatrical element set it in a different league from the other shows I saw this comedy festival. I’ll definitely be seeing his show next year, as, I’ve seen his show for the past couple of years, and each year it’s developed and built upon previous shows. In both stories told and the actual performance of it, it’s developed and changed.