Man Sings The Same Song Over And Over Again For An Hour comedy review: Deliriously joyous
Conk pushes the boundaries of comedy with this show that does what it says on the tin
In this show.
A man sings.
The same song.
Over and over again.
For an hour.
I mean, that’s not all. There’s air guitar. There are party poppers. There are accents, actions and two mic stands. There’s dancing, both performed and communal. Singalongs, naturally. Aerobics, ditto. The odd key change, of course. Bananas. And a little bit of whistling.
That’s it. No artifice. No twist in the tale. Just a man, on stage, singing the same song, over and over again. Until you, or him, lose your mind.
And it’s brilliant.
Conk is well-known for his stints around Adelaide’s Fringe spaces and perhaps it’s no surprise that he’s behind such a deceptively simple idea (but oh to have been a fly on the wall when he was pitching this to the Garden). This is clowning in its purest form: taking an idea and playing, playing and playing again, pushing it well beyond any preconceived boundaries. For the audience, it’s a process: passing through the seven stages of ‘my god is he really going to sing that again’ to a state of delirious joy.
We only get so many hours in our life so it’s important to spend them wisely. Spend at least one of them with Conk. Singing. The same song. Over and over and over again.
Man Sings The Same Song Over And Over Again For An Hour continues at Criterion at The Garden of Unearthly Delights until March 15; picture: mjrsnaps.