BREAD Revue, a new Canberra comedy team made up of around 30 local actors, graphic designers, filmmakers, musicians and producers, returns this weekend to Belco arts for the second year, bringing original comedy to the world 20 years and over.
Founded last year by Rohan Pillutla and Synan Chohan after Chohan told his surprised friends that he would like to do an “all about bread” magazine.
The resulting troupe, Bread Revue, kicked off with the first show, “Mind the Crust,” which hit the mark with jokes about Shakespeare (“VB or no VB”), racism, world politics and beer.
This year, Cholan was joined by a co-director, Alana Grimley, and it’s been a nightmare trying to hide all the jokes from their friends and potential audience members, although Pillutla will reveal that there is a look satirical on the effects of lactose. global intolerance and a parody of Billie Eilish’s ‘Happier Than Ever’ linked to Canberra as the hay fever capital.
Describing what they do as “popular comedy for a good cause”, Pillutla, as producer, says he and Chohan both wanted to create a popular art experience for other young artists to distract everyone from “the overwhelming banality of everyday life” with sketches and great showbiz. -style numbers.
Both had participated in an ANU campus production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in 2019, but neither was a theater student, with Pillutla studying international security and Chohan international relations and history .
They saw that there was theater in high schools and universities, but few opportunities to really get into it. Both from a subcontinental Indian background, they saw comedy as a gateway, a chance to access a little more diversity than what we usually see in the theater.
Pillutla believes that comedy can be more accessible to people from diverse backgrounds than serious dramas, especially for those without theater experience.
He also believes that humor is rather universal. Last year, for example, a skit was specifically about jokes about people from the subcontinent, but he reports that people liked it even if they didn’t understand everything.
This led me to YouTube and I can attest that most would have gotten the joke from the skit where a young white Australian girl tries to show her cultural understanding by asking her Indian boyfriends if they have seen the movie “Lion.”
From the outset, Bread Revue was committed to supporting Muhammad Ali’s charity HelpingACT, which delivers food and supplies to Canberrans in need, including refugees, international students and the homeless. Last year they raised $900 – they hope to outdo this year.
“Mother Doughs Best: A Sketch Comedy Show”, Belconnen Arts Centre, September 23.
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BREAD Revue, a new Canberra comedy team made up of around 30 local actors, graphic designers, filmmakers, musicians and producers, returns this weekend to Belco arts for the second year, bringing original comedy to the world 20 years and over.
Founded last year by Rohan Pillutla and Synan Chohan after Chohan told his surprised friends that he would like to do an “all about bread” magazine.
The resulting troupe, Bread Revue, kicked off with the first show, “Mind the Crust,” which hit the mark with jokes about Shakespeare (“VB or no VB”), racism, world politics and beer.
This year, Cholan was joined by a co-director, Alana Grimley, and it’s been a nightmare trying to hide all the jokes from their friends and potential audience members, although Pillutla will reveal that there is a look satirical on the effects of lactose. global intolerance and a parody of Billie Eilish’s ‘Happier Than Ever’ linked to Canberra as the hay fever capital.
Describing what they do as “popular comedy for a good cause”, Pillutla, as producer, says he and Chohan both wanted to create a popular art experience for other young artists to distract everyone from “the overwhelming banality of everyday life” with sketches and great showbiz. -style numbers.
Both had participated in an ANU campus production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in 2019, but neither was a theater student, with Pillutla studying international security and Chohan international relations and history .
They saw that there was theater in high schools and universities, but few opportunities to really get into it. Both from a subcontinental Indian background, they saw comedy as a gateway, a chance to access a little more diversity than what we usually see in the theater.
Pillutla believes that comedy can be more accessible to people from diverse backgrounds than serious dramas, especially for those without theater experience.
He also believes that humor is rather universal. Last year, for example, a skit was specifically about jokes about people from the subcontinent, but he reports that people liked it even if they didn’t understand everything.
This led me to YouTube and I can attest that most would have gotten the joke from the skit where a young white Australian girl tries to show her cultural understanding by asking her Indian boyfriends if they have seen the movie “Lion.”
From the outset, Bread Revue was committed to supporting Muhammad Ali’s charity HelpingACT, which delivers food and supplies to Canberrans in need, including refugees, international students and the homeless. Last year they raised $900 – they hope to outdo this year.
“Mother Doughs Best: A Sketch Comedy Show”, Belconnen Arts Centre, September 23.
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