Barker’s easy familiarity with the audience and laissez-faire style serves him well and has affirmed the comic Californian’s status as an Aussie favourite.
Not often do we find ourselves in the presence of a genius. I can however, safely say that after Brian Lipson’s A Large Attendance in the Antechamber, my good fortune landed me in the company of two of them
The drawing room comedy doesn’t get a lot of attention in the repertoires of Australian playwrights however it seems that Wayne Tunks has taken it up with something of a vengeance