In Bigger and Blacker, Steven Oliver, merges the storytelling traditions of his culture, the oldest continuous culture on the planet, with some of the newest, relatively speaking, forms of truth telling: spoken word poetry, rap, and cabaret, for an hour of, as he calls it, a faboriginal fabaret.

Oliver is a triple threat that has been thrice othered; he's a musician, a dancer and a comic; he's experienced isolation and discrimination because of the skin that he was born with, the sexuality that he grew to discover, and the fame that he earned through his talents despite it all. Backed by one of our nation's finest cabaret performers on the piano, Michael Griffiths, Oliver yarns from the heart, shakes from the hips and rhymes from the lips again in the city where the show began.

Oliver shines brightest musically when strumming the guitar, shaking the maracas and spitting verses. His narrative deftly blends the personal and political and his risque and flamboyant humour instantly endears.