Lawrence Leung makes his first appearance at the Perth Fringe Festival this year, and what a reliably funny, confounding and confusingly clever performer he is.
Tightly clad and tightly choreographed, Riot, created and directed by Jennifer Jennings & Phillip McMahon, delivers 90 minutes of joyously indulgent irreverence underpinned by calls to think beyond our current servings of politics, religion and social media.
These two are masters of the ‘off the cuff’ retort and had both their victims and audience in stitches.
As dancers they are excellent but where they totally charm is in their unabashed enjoyment of dance. They interact brilliantly with the audience, pull faces, laugh and sing along.
This rather peculiarly named show raised some hopes of subtle, sophisticated, risqué, double-entendres. A dash of Noel Coward wit perhaps? These wishes were immediately dashed as the pair launched into a programme of the “magnificently filthy world of dirty music” to quote the media release.
David Williamson brings home the Bacon in his latest play, Sorting Out Rachel, a tale of avarice, adultery, adolescent bastardry, and assorted arsehole behaviour – lots of mischief not much virtue.
Killjoy-Destroy the Fantasy is as confronting, as it is beautiful, as hard to watch, as it is hilarious and ultimately, a joyful celebration of our differences.