Suma Iyer - Jesus Christ Suma Star - Canberra Comedy Festival
Schedule
Sat Mar 14 2026 at 09:45 am to 10:45 am
UTC+11:00Location
Canberra Theatre Centre | Canberra, CT
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Because I most closely resembled a Middle-Eastern man of all the girls in my year, I was once asked to be Jesus in the Easter Mass at my Catholic girls’ school. The rehearsal got me out of several maths classes and one double science class, and I enjoyed wearing a beard and acting like a man of god. I also enjoyed some prominence in my home town of Wollongong for about a fortnight afterwards (and I got a free strawberry milk at the canteen). I thought the only way was up for me. How very wrong I was.Other things did happen in my youth. I enjoyed an emotional affair with Oscar Wilde, my peers and I found a poo in a bra on the basketball courts, and when I moved out I lived in a share house with licentious Marxists. But when you were Jesus as a teenager, what is left but martyred eye-rolling at the horrible idiocy of whatever daily life has to offer you? Join me to find the answers – it should only take an hour.
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Where is it happening?
Canberra Theatre Centre, Spiegeltent Canberra, London Cct, City ACT 2601, Australia, CanberraEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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