University of New South Wales Revues

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Poster for UNSW Law Revue's 2005 show, The Chronicles of Canberra: The Liar, The Bitch & The Xenophobe. Lawrevue2005.jpg
Poster for UNSW Law Revue's 2005 show, The Chronicles of Canberra: The Liar, The Bitch & The Xenophobe.
Isaac Dela Torre performing at the 2017 Law Revue show, Lady and the Trump. Isaac Dela Torre at UNSW Law Revue 2017.jpg
Isaac Dela Torre performing at the 2017 Law Revue show, Lady and the Trump.

Students produce a number of comedy revues at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia 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. [1] 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.

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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. Notably, the UNSW Law Revue Society's 2020 and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Law and Justice Revue was the first video revue and the only revue to be held in 2020 due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Operationally, each of the three largest revues (Med, Law and CSE) 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 [2]
1975Rumpleforeskin1976Pandemonia, or Thanks for the Mammary!1977It's Epidemic!1978Gross Encounters of the Turd Kind1979The Sound of Mucus1980My Brilliant Diahorrea
1981A Wet Summer Night's Dream1982Merry Maladies: What's up Doc?1983ET: The Extra Testicle1984Doctopussy1985All Crotches Great & Small1986Twilight Moan
1987Dark Side Of The Toast1988Gastro Boy1989The Satanic Nurses1990Zen Cabbage1991Presumed Impotent1992Herniator 2
1993Missing In Traction1994All the President's Phlegm1995The Symptoms1996Glitter199712 Junkies1998South Cark
1999Pre-Millennium Tension2000American Booty2001Medicator2002Stool Wards Episode Poo: Attack Of The Colons20038 Inch2004The Cat With The Fat
2005Mary's Poppin2006Thrush Hour2007Kill Bulk Bill2008Happy Foetus2009Pirates of Cardiology: Dead Man's Chest2010Procrastinator Infection
2011Surgery Street2012PokéMed: Gotta Cure Ém All2013Cirque du Surgery2014Peter Pandemic2015Super Cardio Bros2016Doctor Flu
2017Booty and the Beast2018The Incredipills2019The Golden Probe Awards2021Breaking Bones2022Alice in Rabidland2023The Medic of Oz

Law Revue

UNSW Law Revues
1976The Assault and Battery Operated Show1977As Crime Goes Bi1978Don't Give me the Writz1979Justice You Like It1980Evicta: featuring "Don't Lie for me on Subpoena"1981A Penny for your Torts
1982If They Could Sue Me Now1983 Commission Impossible1984Rebel without a Clause1985Gone With the Briese 1986The Good, The Bad and The Unsworth 1987Police State Your Business or Rollover Trimbole
1988Witless for the Prosecution1989Simply Inadmissible1990Sex, Bribes and Magistrates1991QC Hammer: U Can't Judge This!1992 Republic Enemy1993Juristic Perk
1994 Faheywatch 1995 Bombe Perignon1996 Coalition: Impossible1997So Sue Me Street1998Godzillaw1999The Last Judgment
2000Bored of the Rings 2001Dude, Where's Bob Carr?2002Illegally Bombed featuring Detention Island2003Midget John's Diary2004 Iraqi Horror Picture Show2005The Chronicles of Canberra: The Liar, The Bitch & The Xenophobe
2006Hostile Powers: International Plan for Misery2007 Poll Fiction2008 Bar Wars Episode QC: Revenge of the Silks2009Harried Prosecutor and the Prisoner in Afghanistan2010Abbott In Blunderland2011Law Story
2012The Lying King2013Lexis Case Law Massacre2014The Abbott: The Desolation of Aus2015The Blunder Games: Catching Liars2016 21 Judge Street 2017Lady and the Trump
2018 The Bachelawyer 2019 Chilling Adventures of Subpoena 2020 2020 & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, Law & Justice Revue 2022 No Crime to Lie 2023 Barbie: Life in the Jailhouse

CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) Revue

UNSW CSE (Computer Science & Engineering) Revues [3]
2002Minority Revue2003Revue Reloaded2004Star Key and Hash2005Sin CSE2006The teXt Files: Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind2007Sand Theft Auto: Agrabah City
2008CSE++ // Revue goes large2009Gossip Geek2010Pacman: The Dark Byte2011Hack to the Future2012Codebusters2013The Infringers
2014Game of Codes2015The Lego Revue2016ST*R WARS: The Source Awakens2017Avatar: The Last MacBook Airbender2018Mycrosoft Shrexcel2019Aladdin: Arraybian bytes[]
2022Pirates of the Blue Screen: Deadlocked Chest

AUJS Revue

AUJS Revues
1984Broadway Funny Nose1985Katz1986The Challah Purple1987Little Shop of Schnorrers1988Three Men and a Bagel1989Licence to Spiel / 21 Flood St
1990Teenage Mutant Ninja Rabbis1991Spartuchus1992Hook1993Miss Shugina1994Foreskins and a Funeral1995A Fish Called Gefillte
1996Mishna Impossible1997Shema Wars1998The Full Montefiore1999Austin Payos - The Spy who Schtupped Me2000X-Mensch2001Revue Live: Off Broadway
2002Debbie Does Double Bay20038 Moyel2006Diaspora Housewives2007Harry Pottervich and the Order of the Seder2011The Lambshank Redemption2012Curb Your Judaism
2013Jew Fast, Jew Furious2014Torah the Explorer2015Sabathday night fever2016Mad Max Brenner

Arts & Social Sciences Revue

An Arts & Social Sciences Revue was held in 2006, entitled It's Time. Arts Revue returned in 2013 and again in 2014, entitled 10 Things I Hate About Arts Revue

Engineering Revue

An engineering revue was held in 1991 entitled Gorillas On The Piss.

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 to 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 to 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.

In 2012, CSE Revue held their first "Best of" show, featuring the best sketches from the previous 10 shows.

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 medical-student-only production called UNSW Medshow (or sometimes Med Show) was established in 2000 by former Med Revuer Neil Jeyasingam, after the Med Revue stopped donating proceeds to charity, and due to the onerous rehearsal schedule that made it difficult for medical students to participate. Med Show has been held annually since. [4]

UNSW Revue alumni

See also

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