OK so we have our festival surprise package, folks. Danielle Walker's show Bush Rat is absolute bonkers hilarity. I laughed so hard and so much! I took my 22 year old nephew along (I am WAY younger than that implies) and he laughed so much I feared he might stop breathing.
In her first hour-long stand-up comedy show, this young gun from Townsville draws beautifully on what she knows - growing up in rural Australia surrounded by wacky characters, mainly members of her eccentric family.
Her lack of experience is revealed only in the way she jumps a bit awkwardly between topics but truly she's so charming you just go with it.
Danielle is performing in a pretty small room (a feeble air conditioner by the entrance set to 18 degrees did nothing to bring down the steamy temperature of it, sadly) but I daresay that won't last and you can expect her to be filling bigger and bigger ones as the years go by.
Get along to this show so that in 10 years time when she's filling the Comedy Theatre like Celia Pacquola does, you can say you got behind her back when she was performing in a broom cupboard.
Details for Danielle's show are here https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2018/shows/danielle-walker-bush-rat