ALL GARRY'S SHOWS
(FROM NEWEST TO OLDEST)
CLASSIC PENGUINS
🏆 WINNER 🏆
Malcolm Hardee Million Quid Award
2024
Sell-out Show
Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Top 10 Best Reviewed Shows
Edinburgh Fringe 2024
Literature! Literature! Literature
It might not rhyme with anything but it’s still very important. Having already saved everything else, Garry Starr is now hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. In an hour. Mostly naked (but with flippers).
Comic wunderkind Starr tears through the world’s most iconic works of fiction, from The Little Prince to Moby Dick and everything in between, proving nothing is safe from being lampooned with the utmost nincompoopery.
Following sell-out seasons in Edinburgh, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, your (new) favourite multi-award-winning idiot returns with another anarchic masterclass of epically stupid proportions.
★★★★★
‘A very funny man who is peculiarly averse to wearing trousers’
Scotsman (UK)
★★★★★
‘Making you laugh so hard that you rip a hole in time and space’
Starburst Magazine (UK)
★★★★
‘Brilliantly ticklish… joyfully silly’
Guardian (UK)
★★★★
‘Garry’s knack for the art of play spirals the hour into euphoric chaos’
Metro (UK)
‘It’s bonkers, ingenious, not for everyone, and hilarious’
Daily Mail (UK)
‘One of the great clowns of his generation’
The Stage (UK)
MONKEYS EVERYWHERE
Garry Starr is writing a play. But he’s struggling to concentrate.
Thoughts keep swinging through his head like monkeys in the jungle.
They pop in, drive through, swing past and start monkey parties - making it impossible for him to concentrate.
Garry does love his monkeys.
But sometimes they just get a bit much.
Will Garry ever be able to manage his monkeys and finish his play?
Monkeys Everywhere is a show for all ages – but especially for those who can’t always keep their monkeys under control. Full of clowning, silliness, play and creativity, Monkeys Everywhere is a show with real heart. You would be bananas to miss it!
★★★★★
"A 5 star show about a monkey with mental health issues... You know you’ve struck gold when the grown-ups at a children’s show are laughing as hard (sometimes harder) than their young charges."
- The Scotsman
★★★★★
"“Monkeys Everywhere” is a blend of laughter and insight, deftly addressing the importance of understanding our mental landscape. Starr’s ability to transform complex themes into a light-hearted, family-friendly experience is nothing short of genius. This performance is an unmissable treat that leaves audiences with smiles and a new perspective on their ‘monkeys.’"
One4Review
★★★★★
"Garry Starr has set the standard for family entertainment. His playful asides go straight over young heads to tickle adult funny bones. His his physical comedy superbly satisfies childlike sensibilities. There’s plenty of audience participation. His attention to the crowd is unmatched, enthusiastically interacting with every child… and every parent. Monkeys Everywhere is immensely silly and more fun than a barrel of monkeys."
Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
Winner of Best Kids Show (The Besties, chosen by the Fest Kid Critics)
This show was highly rated by all of Fest’s kid critic review team who saw it. Described by one parent as “The only kids show I have ever actually enjoyed,” Monkeys Everywhere achieves the rare feat of being entertaining for both children and adults. - The Besties
Winner of the Best Children's Show (Entertainment NOW)
Nominee for Best Show (the List)
GREECE LIGHTNING
An overzealous idiot attempts to perform all of Greek Mythology in order to save his Hellenic homeland from economic ruin.
Never before has Medusa been looser,
Achilles more sillies,
or Uranus so heinous.
Having single handedly saved the performing arts with his multi-award-winning debut show, comic wunderkind Garry Starr returns with another anarchic masterclass not to be mythed.
★★★★★
'Sidesplittingly funny physical comedy'
The Age
★★★★★
'This hour of madcap mayhem needs to shoot straight to the top of your must-see list'
Scottish Daily Mail
★★★★★
'An adrenaline rush of absolute irreverence'
British Theatre Guide
★★★★★
'Utter chaos - in the best way possible'
Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★½
'Garry Starr deserves a seat in the pantheon of physical comedians'
Chortle
GARRY STARR
PERFORMS EVERYTHING
🏆 WINNER - Best Physical Theatre & Circus 🏆
Sydney Fringe 2022
🏆 WINNER - Best Comedy 🏆
Manchester Fringe 2018
🏆 WINNER - Emerging Artist 🏆
Adelaide Fringe 2018 Weekly
🏆 WINNER - Tour Ready Award 🏆
Adelaide Fringe 2018
Disgraced actor Garry Starr defies his critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from extinction. Starr tears through genres with little regard for personal safety and even less regard for art.
Nothing is sacred during this ‘masterclass in mockery’ (London Evening Standard). From Classical to Physical Theatre, Burlesque to Butoh, Melodrama to Mask; even Cirque Nouveau and contemporary ‘Euro Theatre’ get the Garry Starr treatment.
Directed by Cal McCrystal (The Mighty Boosh, Spymonkey, Paddington 1 & 2)
★★★★★
'An anarchic play-date with a six-foot-two toddler with a mop of fuzzy hair, no inhibitions and far too much raspberry cordial on board. It’s an exhilarating feeling'
GLAM Adelaide
★★★★★
‘From now on, any one-man comedy show I watch will be measured against the Garry Starr bar, and believe me that bar is now incredibly high’
New Zealand Herald
★★★★
‘Uproariously funny...a superb, accessible clown’
The Scotsman
★★★★
‘A drama masterclass, leading us from clownish chaos to feats of comic genius.’
The Guardian
★★★★
‘Unapologetically entertaining’
London Evening Standard
★★★★
‘Hilarious…Starr’s comic sensibility has broad appeal’
The Age