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Self Love: Telia Nevile
Posted on Friday, April 8th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Poet Laureate Telia Nevile – For Whom the Bell Tolls
A review by Telia ‘does this perm make my thighs look fat?’ Nevile
So I’m gonna say this upfront – I had a great time at high school. I mean, I don’t know what people complain about. For me it was all about being popular, getting wasted on Southern Comfort and hanging out in Jared’s panel van when I should have been in maths class. Anyway, my boyfriend Trent got free tickets to see this show through some geek he bumped into on the street and there was nothing good on TV so I went along with half a block of Cadbury’s and the latest Cosmo.
From the minute it started, I could see that the chick onstage was like Emily O’Neill, who was the biggest loser at Ridgemont High (I used to flush her textbooks down the toilet), so I basically stopped listening and flipped straight to the horoscopes. Every so often I’d catch bits and pieces of poetry (!), which I always thought I’d never have to listen to again after dropping English in Year 10, but then halfway through the ‘How To Tell If He’s About To Propose’ quiz, music came on and I realized that she was rapping (ew!). I mean, if I had been a loser at high school I would have found a stylist and a life coach and like, I dunno, fixed myself, or at least had enough self respect to just try to blend in with the background at some office somewhere as like a receptionist or something. But this girl was onstage, admitting she was a loser! What a loser!
The rest of the audience, who all looked like losers too, seemed to enjoy the show. I think it was some kind of weirdos-of-the-world-unite meeting or something, but me and Trent couldn’t wait to get out of there so we could go to Chasers and do shots.
Poetry? Get stuffed! Unless it’s on a Valentine’s Day card delivered with a dozen plastic red roses, or in the marriage vows some hot guy says to me one day before he sweeps me away in the latest Ferrari to be a trophy wife, I don’t wanna hear it.
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Poet Laureate Telia Nevile – For Whom the Bell Tolls
MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL
Venue: Lunch Room, Melbourne Town Hall
Address: Cnr Collins & Swanston Sts, Melbourne
Date: Thurs 31st March – Sun 24th April (no show Mon)
Time: Tues-Sat 7:15pm, Sun 6:15pm
Info and tickets here
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