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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Alexandra Neill

Bronwyn Kuss: Bronwyn & Sons review – parchingly dry comedy about success in your late 30s

Bronwyn Kuss.
Comedian Bronwyn Kuss – ‘slowly cementing a place as a fixture in Australia’s comedy landscape’. Photograph: Nicole Reed

A drunk witch once told Bronwyn Kuss to have a baby. She didn’t. But she’s still convinced there’s an outside chance it could happen accidentally – despite being in a long-term lesbian relationship.

Kuss’s new show, Bronwyn & Sons, is a rambling look at what success looks like in your late 30s, when you’re broke, childfree and your parents don’t really understand your job. The show’s title comes from the dying genre of business named for their parent and child proprietors. What happens to these businesses, Kuss wonders, when parents are too supportive of their children’s dreams and they grow up to be clowns instead of bricklayers?

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