University of New South Wales Revues
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University of New South Wales
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, Australia
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each year. Written and performed by students, the shows comment satirically on current affairs, pop culture, dating and university life. They feature song parodies, short sketches, video segments and dance numbers. The first revue at the university, entitled Low Notes, was organised by the Students' Union in 1956. The first revue by the UNSW Medical Society Revue, held in 1975, was entitled Rumpleforeskin and was quickly followed by the UNSW Law Revue Society's The Assault and Battery Operated Show.
Shows are typically named with a pun on a then-current pop culture reference: usually a movie but computer games, political slogans, television shows and books have also featured.
Since 1975, revues from the Law, Built Environment and Arts faculties, the School of Computer Science, and the university's Jewish community, have all been held.
Operationally, each of the three largest revues (Med, Law and CSE) is a club affiliated to UNSW Arc
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and subject to the latter's oversight. Revues retain their institutional memory through 'old revuers', participants who come back year after year. Former directors are often invited back to perform voice-overs and critique shows before they go to stage.
Medical Revue
| UNSW Medical Revues | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Rumpleforeskin | 1976 | Pandemonia, or Thanks for the Mammary! | 1977 | It's Epidemic! | 1978 | Gross Encounters of the Turd Kind | 1979 | The Sound of Mucus | 1980 | My Brilliant Diahorrea |
| 1981 | A Wet Summer Night's Dream | 1982 | Merry Maladies: What's up Doc? | 1983 | ET: The Extra Testicle | 1984 | Doctopussy | 1985 | All Crotches Great & Small | 1986 | Twilight Moan |
| 1987 | Dark Side Of The Toast | 1988 | Gastro Boy | 1989 | The Satanic Nurses | 1990 | Zen Cabbage | 1991 | Presumed Impotent | 1992 | Herniator 2 |
| 1993 | Missing In Traction | 1994 | All the President's Phlegm | 1995 | The Symptoms | 1996 | Glitter | 1997 | 12 Junkies | 1998 | South Cark |
| 1999 | Pre-Millennium Tension | 2000 | American Booty | 2001 | Medicator | 2002 | Stool Wards Episode Poo: Attack Of The Colons | 2003 | 8 Inch | 2004 | The Cat With The Fat |
| 2005 | Mary's Poppin | 2006 | Thrush Hour | 2007 | Kill Bulk Bill | 2008 | Happy Foetus | 2009 | Pirates of Cardiology: Dead Man's Chest | 2010 | Procrastinator Infection |
| 2011 | Surgery Street | ||||||||||
Law Revue
| UNSW Law Revues | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | The Assault and Battery Operated Show | 1977 | As Crime Goes Bi | 1978 | Don't Give me the Writz | 1979 | Justice You Like It | 1980 | Evicta: featuring "Don't Lie for me on Subpoena" | 1981 | A Penny for your Torts |
| 1982 | If They Could Sue Me Now | 1983 | Commission Impossible | 1984 | Rebel without a Clause | 1985 | Gone With the Briese Lionel Murphy Lionel Keith Murphy, QC was an Australian politician and jurist who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1975 until his death.- Personal life :... |
1986 | The Good, The Bad and The Unsworth Barry Unsworth Barry Unsworth is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. He has published 15 novels, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.... |
1987 | Police State Your Business or Rollover Trimbole Robert Trimbole Robert Trimbole was an Australian businessman, drug baron and organised crime boss whose alleged involvement in the disappearance of anti-marijuana campaigner Donald Mackay and involvement in drug trafficking in the Griffith, New South Wales area, led to a royal commission, a Coroner's inquest and... |
| 1988 | Witless for the Prosecution | 1989 | Simply Inadmissible | 1990 | Sex, Bribes and Magistrates | 1991 | QC Hammer: U Can't Judge This! | 1992 | Republic Republicanism in Australia Republicanism in Australia is a movement to change Australia's status as a constitutional monarchy to a republican form of government. Such sentiments have been expressed in Australia from before federation onward to the present... Enemy |
1993 | Juristic Perk |
| 1994 | Fahey John Fahey (politician) John Joseph Fahey, AC is a former Premier of New South Wales and Federal Minister for Finance in Australia. John Fahey is currently the President of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1984 to 1996 and the federal House of Representatives... watch |
1995 | Bombe Moruroa Moruroa , also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean... Perignon |
1996 | Coalition Australian legislative election, 1996 Federal elections were held in Australia on 2 March 1996. All 148 seats in the House of Representatives and 40 seats in the 76-member Senate were up for election... : Impossible |
1997 | So Sue Me Street | 1998 | Godzillaw | 1999 | The Last Year 2000 problem The Year 2000 problem was a problem for both digital and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits.In computer programs, the practice of representing the year with two... Judgment |
| 2000 | Bored of the Rings 2000 Summer Olympics The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia... |
2001 | Dude, Where's Bob Carr Bob Carr Robert John "Bob" Carr , Australian statesman, was Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005. He holds the record for the longest continuous service as premier of NSW... ? |
2002 | Illegally Bombed War in Afghanistan (2001–present) The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom... featuring Detention Mandatory detention in Australia Mandatory detention in Australia concerns the Australian federal government's policy and system of mandatory immigration detention active from 1992 to date, pursuant to which all persons entering the country without a valid visa are compulsorily detained and sometimes subject to deportation.In the... Island |
2003 | Midget John's John Howard John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.... Diary |
2004 | Iraqi Horror Picture Show | 2005 | The Chronicles of Canberra: The Liar, The Bitch & The Xenophobe |
| 2006 | Hostile Powers: International Plan War on Terrorism The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries... for Misery |
2007 | Poll Fiction | 2008 | Bar Bar (law) Bar in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; and the legal profession.-Courtroom division:... Wars Episode QC Queen's Counsel Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law... : Revenge of the Silks |
2009 | Harried Prosecutor and the Prisoner in Afghanistan | 2010 | Abbott In Blunderland | 2011 | Law Story |
CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) Revue
| UNSW CSE (Computer Science & Engineering) Revues | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Minority Revue | 2003 | Revue Reloaded | 2004 | Star Key and Hash | 2005 | Sin CSE | 2006 | The teXt Files: Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind | 2007 | Sand Theft Auto: Agrabah City |
| 2008 | CSE++ // Revue goes large | 2009 | Gossip Geek | 2010 | Pacman: The Dark Byte | 2011 | Hack to the Future | ||||
AUJS Revue
| AUJS Revues | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Broadway Funny Nose | 1985 | Katz | 1986 | The Challah Purple | 1987 | Little Shop of Schnorrers | 1988 | Three Men and a Bagel | 1989 | Licence to Spiel / 21 Flood St |
| 1990 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Rabbis | 1991 | Spartuchus | 1992 | Hook | 1993 | Miss Shugina | 1994 | Foreskins and a Funeral | 1995 | A Fish Called Gefillte |
| 1996 | Mishna Impossible | 1997 | Shema Wars | 1998 | The Full Montefiore | 1999 | Austin Payos - The Spy who Schtupped Me | 2000 | X-Mensch | 2001 | Revue Live: Off Broadway |
| 2002 | Debbie Does Double Bay | 2003 | 8 Moyel | 2006 | Diaspora Housewives | 2007 | Harry Pottervich and the Order of the Seder | 2011 | The Lambshank Redemption | ||
Arts & Social Sciences Revue
An Arts & Social Sciences Revue was held in 2006, entitled It's Time.Other shows
"Best of" revues typically combine selected material from previous shows, sometimes updated or adapted to take into account the intervening period of time. A "Best of" show, featuring material from both Med Revues and Law Revues from the years 1984-1989, was held in the Bondi PavilionBondi Pavilion
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in 1990. The show was called A Fabulous Set of Steak Knives. A "Best of" called Heart Rate High: the Bex Years of Our Lives was held at the Figtree Theatre in 1996, but covered material from Med Revues only from 1990-1995. In 1998, a show was put on by revuers off-campus called Dead Fish are Fun, which featured some material from past Law and Med Revues, as well as original material. In 2001, a "Best of" show called Comedy for the Chemical Generation was held at the Figtree theatre covering material from Med Revues 1996-2000.
In 2006, Law & Orderlies, a "Best of" show covering both Med and Law Revue, was held at the Figtree Theatre. The bulk of material was drawn from Revues from 2000–2005, however the show also featured sketches from Med Revue 1975, Law Revue 1989, and Law Revue 1998.
In 2011, another "Best of" show was staged, again in the Fig Tree Theatre. The title of the show was "Deja Revue", and featured content mostly from 2006 - 2010 Med & Law Revues. The show had a 4 night run, and sold out every single seat for every single night, before the curtain had even opened on the first night.
Other revues at the university are held from time to time: students from New College
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, the Faculty of the Built Environment and the university's Buddhist club organise smaller-scale shows. Sketch comedy shows have also been hosted by the New South Wales University Theatrical Society (NUTS), the UNSW comedy club Studio Four, and other groups. A rival medical-student revue called UNSW Medshow (or sometimes Med Show) was established in 2000 by former Med Revuer Neil Jeyasingam, and has been held annually since. The Australian Graduate School of Management
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(AGSM), which is part of the university, has put on revues in the past (notably 1997 and 1998). They are not widely advertised outside the AGSM community and are normally held for one night only.
UNSW Revue alumni
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- Matthew "Aiyiah" Lee, co-host on ABC2ABC2ABC2 is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 7 March 2005, it is the responsibility of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television division, and is available nationally to digital television viewers in Australia...
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See also
Revues are also held at:- Australian National University
- Macquarie University
- University of SydneyUniversity of Sydney RevuesThe University of Sydney plays host to numerous comedy revues each year. Each revue features comedy sketches, songs and videos written and performed by students, usually commenting satirically on current affairs, the supporting faculty and general student life.The revues are produced and sponsored...