[Review] Tony Law: The Dog of Time
Canadians really are different, aren’t they? No-one envies the task of a little-known comedian trying to warm up a small audience early on in the Festival, but Tony Law did a fine job, drawing us out of the drab theatre and into a surreal world of sausage dogs, worm holes and hula hoops.
Two ‘country hick’ personas, one white South African, concealed a more serious environmental agenda, although Law’s green politics come sandwiched between his more surreal perceptions of the world. Apparently, “many of you will have experienced what it feels like to be a giant”. Law’s stabs at bigotry and head-in-the-sand politics got big laughs, but it is some of his sillier remarks that still make me smile at odd moments: after all, why is it only the wolves that look after abandoned human babies?
Gaye Belle
August 31st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
This person got it and that is nice.