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Greatest of all time
“Greatest of all time”
Simple, skilful, sophisticated Storytelling.
Reviewed by Frances B.
26 January 2025
Greatest of all time
“Greatest of all time”
It takes a real master storyteller to be able to capture an audience within seconds and then for an hour, hold their attention and captivate them with every twist and turn through a tale….something that Rob appears to do with ease. But then that’s the mastery of Rob and his craft at work. I hope you come back to Fringe Rob, with more stories to share.
Reviewed by Ali W.
25 January 2025
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Review by Shane Pinnegar | 31 January 2025

Rob Carlton is a Logie Award-winning actor and a masterful raconteur, delivering four engaging human stories from his life over the course of one immensely entertaining hour.

It’s not a chatty show as such – these stories are presented as soliloquies, masterfully acted, and contain all the emotion of a feature film along the way – sure, it’s ostensibly a comedy show – but in addition to being truly funny it’s also heartfelt, sad, moving, tender.

In fact, these four true stories are consummately delivered – the cousins who get it on the Christmas Grandma is dying; the movie which hired him as continuity expert despite him having no clue what that meant; the one about visiting his formative years’ locations with his late Dad’s ashes; another about auditioning terribly for a major musical theatre production – collectively covering most human emotions in a wonderful celebration of what it is to be human, to be alive and feeling all the feels.

Sensationally life affirming.