Concrete Playground

Eddie Perfect’s sense of humour is disturbingly funny. Like a car crash you know you shouldn’t look at but can’t help yourself looking anyway, Perfect’s jokes are ones you know you shouldn’t laugh at because if your mum was sitting next to you she’d box your ears for it. Perfect shot to notoriety in 2009 with the spoof Shane Warne: The Musical, and after playing former Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, in Keating! The Musical, is heralded to look fabulous in fishnet stockings and heels.

With a three-piece band in tow, Misanthropology asks, ‘What makes us human?’ and ‘Does a shopping trolley full of ‘eco’ and ‘organic’ make you a better person than one full of ‘No Frills’ and ‘Made in China’?’ Commissioned specifically for the Sydney Festival, Misanthropology sees Perfect teamed with director Craig Ilott, whose work on the SF2010 world premiere of Smoke and Mirrors (starring iOTA) resulted in an international tour and a slew of Helpmann Awards for the cast and creators. Perfect is so tastefully irreverent in Misanthropology that it is only performed at midnight to a legally aged crowd, but I still wonder if you’d be game enough to take your mum?