{"id":18424,"date":"2026-04-10T00:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=18424"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:07:17","slug":"observer-life-oh-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/04\/10\/observer-life-oh-life\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Life, Oh Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gillian Cosgriff is funny, clever, relatable. Her show Life, Oh Life in the Arts Centre basement is therefore a \u2018one to see\u2019. There are a number of laughs, yet also many moments of reflection.<br>Cosgriff starts by acknowledging that this very moment in time is unique, the first of many food for thought life observations that piqued my interest.<br>Whilst there is a format including clever, musical songs Cosgriff is terrific, thinking on her feet, responding with genuine kindness, and respect to the audience&#8217;s suggestions.<br>Literally all the audience is involved in a non threatening way. Her questioning gains various insights which she seemingly effortlessly includes into her show with pathos, creativity, laughter.<br>Cosgriff has many talents as a writer, musician, singer, actor, stand up comedian. She has cleverly written songs which are a reflection on the society we live in, past present, future so there is something everyone can relate to, with lots of humour.<br>I had a smile on my face throughout as did most of the audience who were listening with ease to the clever lyrics that told a number of stories.<br>At times you could hear a pin drop, other times the theatre filled with laughter.<br>Cosgriff is a thinker, a clever comedian with a beautiful relaxed manner. It felt an honour to be a part of this unique show that, if over 16, has something for everyone, perhaps even everything for some.<br><strong>Review by Elizabeth Semmel<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Cosgriff is funny, clever, relatable. Her show Life, Oh Life in the Arts Centre basement is therefore a \u2018one to see\u2019. There are a number of laughs, yet also many moments of reflection.Cosgriff starts by acknowledging that this very moment in time is unique, the first of many food for thought life observations that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18429,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18424\/revisions\/18429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}