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ED2015 5/5 Reviews ED2015 Spoken Word Reviews
Monkey Poet – Spaceage Simian (PBH’s Free Fringe)
By Sarah Murphy | Published on Tuesday 25 August 2015
What differentiates Matt Panesh from other performers who like to push the boundaries of social acceptability, is that rather than spiralling downwards into a dark, irrecoverable vortex of offensiveness, he somehow travels upwards instead. And I’m not just referring to his ‘2001: Space Odyssey’ conspiracy theory. He’ll approach a topic like porn, do a little irreverent dance with it, like a beery matador, then surprise us with a golden flash of intuition. Try as he might to bury his fearsome intellect underneath crude poo jokes, it’s there, the force electrifying his performance into a weird, will’o’the’wisp wank-sonnet. I won’t say this is poetry like you’ve never seen it before, because Panesh would read that sentence and laugh at me.
Banshee Labyrinth, until 30 Aug.
tw rating 5/5 | [Sarah Murphy]
