2007 Barry Nominee & Winner Best Comedy 2006 Melbourne Fringe.

In 2007 Kate McLennan’s hysterical show The Debutante Diaries took the Comedy Festival by storm with sell-out shows and rave reviews, culminating in a Barry Award nomination. She returns with The Enthusiasts, a hilarious character-based show about groupies, fans and people with a good old fashioned dose of passion.

Kate has been employed to write a weekend newspaper column called “The Enthusiasts” where she must interview a series of extreme fanatics, aficionados and all round enthusiastic people. She deftly re-enacts the interviews of the six subjects. We meet Natalie, the Justin Timberlake groupie; Janine Bellows, a goal achievement extraordinaire; avid reader - the 7-year-old Janie Brown; Miranda Nicholson, whose body has hit ‘reproduction o’clock’; Chad Sabatini, lover of women; and Ron and Beverley McLaren who share a passion for the great Australian holiday.

“* * * * McLennan’s show is a definite winner.”
Edinburgh Skinny Fest Magazine

“Really hysterical.” Beat Magazine

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