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Title: Arts Festival review - Comparison Is Violence
Post by: Shana A on March 08, 2011, 08:37:19 AM
Arts Festival review - Comparison Is Violence

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 3:30p.m.
By James Murray

http://www.3news.co.nz/Arts-Festival-review---Comparison-Is-Violence/tabid/418/articleID/201394/Default.aspx (http://www.3news.co.nz/Arts-Festival-review---Comparison-Is-Violence/tabid/418/articleID/201394/Default.aspx)

Taylor Mac's wise and all-encompassing cabaret has a very long name.

The Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim Songbook, Or Comparison is Violence is a witty and tender look at our tendency to use comparison in a negative light, with a backdrop of rearranged David Bowie classics and Tiny Tim ditties.

The idea for the show was borne of a similar comparison. One reviewer's description of Mac as a combination of David Bowie and Tiny Tim catching on with lazy hacks and "piquing" the "ire" of this poignantly funny drag queen.