University of New South Wales Revues

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A revue poster from 2006.

Students produce a number of comedy revues at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia each year. Generally organised by faculty, these shows feature song parodies, short sketches, video segments and dance numbers. Written and performed by students, the shows comment satirically on current affairs, pop culture, dating and university life. Revue at UNSW began in 1975 with a medical students' revue entitled Rumpleforeskin.

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 also been established.

Operationally, each of the three revues is a club affiliated to UNSW Arc 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.

Past shows

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

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 Breise	1986	The Good, The Bad and The Unsworth	1987	Police State Your Business or Rollover Trimbole
1988	Witless for the Prosecution	1989	Simply Inadmissible	1990	Sex, Bribes and Magistrates	1991	QC Hammer: U Can't Judge This!	1992	Republic Enemy	1993	Juristic Perk
1994	Faheywatch	1995	Bombe Perignon	1996	Coalition: Impossible	1997	So Sue Me Street	1998	Godzillaw	1999	The Last Judgment
2000	Bored of the Rings	2001	Dude, Where's Bob Carr?	2002	Illegally Bombed featuring Detention Island	2003	Midget John's Diary	2004	Iraqi Horror Picture Show	2005	The Chronicles of Canberra: The Liar, The Bitch & The Xenophobe
2006	Hostile Powers: International Plan for Misery	2007	Poll Fiction

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

Computer Science and Engineering Revue

UNSW 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

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 Pavilion 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.

Other revues at the university are held from time to time: students from New College, 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 (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

• Andrew Dyer, cast member and writer for the Seven Network's Big Bite
• Tristan Jepson, cast member and writer for the Seven Network's Big Bite
• Matthew Lee, co-host on ABC2's Good Game

See also

Revues are also held at:

• Australian National University
• Macquarie University
• University of Sydney

External links

• Arts & Social Sciences Revue
• AUJS Revue
• CSE Revue
• Law Revue
• Med Revue
• New College Revue