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The Arts fac­ulty at Sydney Uni (and indeed most other Aus­tralian uni­ver­sit­ies) is reg­u­larly derided for the worth­less­ness of the degrees, and the lazi­ness and hackt­iv­ism of the stu­dents. I on the other hand have great respect for the stu­dents, who don’t have as much free time as people think, and at least have the balls to con­front people on import­ant issues.

The deri­sion tends to extend into a gen­eral mal­aise for a whole range of arts activ­it­ies on cam­pus. This unfor­tu­nately includes the Arts revue, which was at best at half-capacity last night. The Law revue

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in con­trast was fully-booked des­pite stark dif­fer­ences in qual­ity between them. I shall explain.

The lack of an expli­cit theme worked in the Arts revue’s favour. It allowed it to be very free-flowing, a refresh­ing reprieve from the highly struc­tured acts in the other revues. The per­ceived spon­taneity of the skits and jokes was backed up by strong act­ing and excel­lent deliv­ery, the kinds of qual­it­ies you’d expect from a ster­ling com­edy troupe.

While the Law revue ten­ded to focus on inter-academic and race/cultural jokes, Arts’ skits involved highly relat­able “ordin­ary” situ­ations: scorned ex-partners, bed-side etiquette, meeting-the-parents, awk­ward “I-love-yous”. This cre­ated an air of decided un-pretension, and triggered a lot of well-deserved laughs. All this on a shoe-string budget. Con­grat­u­la­tions guys (and girls).

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