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The Age 13.4.03 If there’s such a thing as a classic football comedy, then Barrackers is probably it! Matt Byrne, Glenn Butcher, Mariusz Horn and P.J. Oaten as Weasel, Bazz, Stazz and Deano, take us through all the torments, passion, inebriation, irrationality and eternal optimism of the fanatical football follower. They barrack for the Fernwood Ferrets, a team that hasn’t had a win for two years; and with a star player called Nathan Figjam, it’s easy to see why. These four energetic performers also appear as their team cheerleaders, player’s girlfriends, elderly female supporters, media commentators, snooty sponsors and even the players themselves. The show consists of a lightning-fast series of sketches that take us right through a game against the Kalgoorlie Nuggets (these are South Australian Aussie rules fanatics) to its nail-biting but inevitable conclusion. It’s perfect pub entertainment, well-written, energetically-performed, and all hilariously familiar to football-saturated Melburnians.
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