Tinged with Gilt – Independent Weekly Review
A scorching autumn night in the Tin Shed at the Wheatsheaf Hotel Thebarton was no place to play it straight and Anthony Jucha didn’t try.
Tinged with Gilt, his latest Fringe offering, was tinged with laughter, surprise appearances by two people in a horse costume and a re-enactment of Michael Hutchence’s last hours.
Jucha, a lawyer with a conscience, touch of madness and an apparent penchant for ladies’ underwear, mixed multimedia with live comedy and music. Jucha and friend Michael Hicks take the crowd on Jucha’s rambling, but entertaining journey from corporate lawyer to defending the citizens of Redfern, Sydney and refugees.
His [...]
Tinged with Gilt – The Adelaide Fix
The funniest moments in this show were actually provided by Rundle Mall shoppers during a vox pop-style !lm segment shown at the start of the evening. Anthony Jucha (pronounced Yoo-ha) presents a show outlining one lawyer’s trials and tribulations from Sydney to Port Kemble to Redfern and back again. There are moments of interest – one can’t avoid the sexual strangulation scene – however for the most part the show lacked rhythm and at times didn’t seem to even have much point. There were a couple of giggles, even a few extended chuckles, but nothing that could produce a decent [...]
Review – & Other Difficulties
After his bare all expose during the 2004 festival, which received varying degrees of bad reviews (read: vastly misunderstood), Anthony Jucha has decided to gather up all the overtly ambitious thespian flare and spirit within and take matters further; after all this new show is clearly all about him and how dare the press attack his well meaning integrity?
Struggling between his professional career as a lawyer and, of all things, a wannabe comedian, Jucha demonstrates his aspirations over the years: dressing up as Patsy Bisco and reading an occasionally flawed, but otherwise cutely conceived story of a little sea monster [...]
Adelaide Theatre Guide – What Makes a Man Bare All?
Billed as an hour show, I had to skip out of this one 80 minutes into it in order to make my next production. Dare I say, it was with some relief that I did so too.
Anthony Jucha is not a comedian. He’s an angry man with too many issues to be funny. Using video footage, some of his stories were amusing, but he spends a lot of the show working himself up over the injustices of this world. He has every right to be angry, as we all should, over the homeless and other unacceptable bi-products of our world, [...]
Review – What Makes a Man Bare All?
What makes a man bare all? A question that’s rhetorically asked many times over in this, a comically based exploration of social issues, morals and one man’s askew sense of curiosity. Anthony Jucha (pronounced ‘Yooha’) takes us on an ongoing journey where, often upon acting on a whim, he covertly enters into different realms.
Beginning his show by explaining his current position as an unemployed lawyer, Jucha moves on to tell of a weekend spent sleeping out with our city’s homeless. Peppering the sadder aspects of this ‘assignment’ with many humorous revelations that serve to subtly deprecate his own good fortunes, [...]
Review – What Makes a Man Bare All?
One and a half stars.
Adelaide lawyer and comedian Anthony Jucha wanted to bare all to festival-goers. What a pity then his stories weren’t particularly engaging or funny.
Jucha discussed life as a lawyer, spending three nights on the streets with the city’s homeless and losing his virginity – yet nothing held much interest. The only truly funny part was when he showed his failed audition tape from Puppetry of the Penis – though that too was more cringeworthy
than hilarious.
His “feral” folk singer sidekick Soursob Bob was the show’s only saving grace. But when a song about putting panties on mannequins is [...]
At Your Lip Service
PUCKER up, Adelaide – smooches are going for just $1.
That’s the going rate at a kissing booth run by Adelaide comic Anthony Jucha, left, to promote his Fringe show, What Makes a Man Bare All?, starting today.
Anthony, 29, who is also a part-time commercial lawyer for Doman Lawyers and failed penis puppeteer entrant, said the stunt was all his marketing budget would allow.
“You do have to do things to compete with the big names,” he said.
Andrew has managed to rack up 50 kisses – from both men and women – in two days. A bought kiss earns a free ticket [...]
On Going Bare
ADELAIDE lawyer and penis puppeteer Anthony Jucha gives a thoughtful and humorous account of his personal experiences in What Makes a Man Bare All at the East End Exchange Hotel from March 8 to 14 (daily at 7pm and 9pm). He reveals the intricacies of penis puppetry and professional flirtation, relates his experience of sleeping out with the homeless, and reflects on his rejections in law and in love.
(The Messenger – 3 March 2004)
Freshbait Theatre
Freshbait is a Fringe program giving young artists the chance to test their work on a live audience.
Free Freshbait theatre, music, dance, film and mixed media performances are dotted around the Fringe Hub. If past festivals are anything to go by, they are worth a look although my opening-day Freshbait experience was hit and miss.
After arriving late for the start of the theatre program – curiously, a film called Evolution – I joined a queue of similarly ill-fated people asked to wait outside. When the film ended, we waited some more while the set was installed for the second piece, [...]
Law in the Raw
HE’S an Adelaide lawyer who moonlights as a comedian and his claim to fame is auditioning for Puppetry of the Penis – and failing.
“I don’t know why I missed out because I could do all the moves – the Eiffel Tower, The Loch Ness Monster, the Windsurfer,” Anthony Jucha said last week.
Now Anthony has turned his bizarre life experiences into a one-man show, What Makes A Man Bare All, from March 8 to 14 at the East End Exchange for this year’s Fringe Festival.
The show will include some video footage of Anthony’s penis puppetry audition.
“You just won’t see anything more [...]
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Gonzo Journalism – Turkey Business
Last Christmas, I was poisoned by my mother-in-law. It was nothing personal. She poisoned her heavily pregnant daughter as well.
“Urgh!” announced my better half from the bathroom. “That’s the first spew of my pregnancy.”
“I blame the turkey,” I said pushing past for a turn at the bowl.
“But you didn’t even eat the turkey.”
“Exactly,” I said with a splatter. “That’s how bad it was.”
But I had no idea how bad it was until, this silly season, I went to see some turkeys.
“There must be quite a build up of stock for Christmas,” I said to my animal liberationist guide, Emma, as [...]
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Satire – Golden Gavel 2010
My speech in the NSW Young Lawyer’s Golden Gavel public speaking competition in 2010.
Competitors are assigned a topic at random less than 24 hours before the event. My topic was ‘Barristers – without solicitors they’re really just fluff and stuffing’. 500+ lawyers watch the event.
This was the last year I am ‘young’ enough to compete so I went for broke and tried to put on a real show. I also took the opportunity to made fun of: the President of Young Lawyers, the President of the Lawyer Society and the Honourable Justice Bergin Chief Judge in Equity of [...]
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Guerilla Law – complaints about police
I set up my ‘free legal advice’ stall in Glebe. Two young men sat down and said they were sick of being hassled by the police. I told them that the best thing to do would be to avoid the police in question. I also told them how to make a complaint about the police.
I recorded the conversation and it was broadcast on 2SER’s law show ‘Radio Atticus’. You can listen below:
See Radio Atticus at 2SER for the full show.
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Satire – engineers beat lawyers
As the team of lawyers were quick to point out, 11 of the 27 prime ministers of this country have practised law. So how did a team of engineers convince an audience that they, rather than lawyers, would make better politicians, when even Gillard and Abbott both have law degrees?
Try this argument from the engineers’ second speaker, Andrew Pratley: “Australia had only one choice at the election, and that was to elect a lawyer. And what did we do? We rejected them both.”
The inaugural debate between Young Engineers Australia Sydney Division and the Law Society of NSW Young Lawyers was [...]
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Satire – What Makes a Man Bare All?
Anthony’s 2004 Adelaide Fringe debut takes us on a journey that bares all. With musical support from Gary and Rob (and constant interruptions by Michael Hicks), the show features such unusual explorations as:
• why spotted ties send the wrong message
• the rejection letter poem
• the army, cocaine, grenades and me
• why thinking about work can actually increase arousal
• losing your virginity; beware the dark blue ring
• hard up at the puppetry of the penis auditions
• the brighter side of breaking your penis
• a long weekend sleeping out with the homeless
If there is a place in hell for you [...]
