It’s time: the Wharf Revue is exiting the stage after 25 years of political piss-takes and satirical skewerings, from songs about the unceasing weaponisation of refugees since the Tampa affair to shadow puppetry spotlighting the misogyny of the “ditch the witch” rally. Now, just like Joe Hockey celebrating a budget of health and welfare cuts with cigars, the revue’s final satirical show will ignite memories of our lowest political nadirs.
Beginning in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf theatre in 2000, the Wharf Revue quickly became known for its annual touring show mashing Broadway belters and political assassinations. And every year its players always had an abundance of material, given that neither major party ever learned from the other’s machiavellian machinations.
