Like a series of extraordinary auditions, this show is a performers gift because no one is without an opportunity to deliver. In a lesser production this could clearly be perilous for some but with performers of this calibre, the audience really is the winner.
On paper, Priscilla has all the ingredients for a fun night out, but in practice she is beginning to show signs of her age.
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.