Massive Bitch

Wow, what a comical plethora of paradoxical characters performed by the up and coming, already legendary Chelsea Zeller.

After her sellout show at the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, she has returned with a brilliant new show to rock your socks off.

Massive Bitch is a brazen, pie-in-your-face one woman show - with audience in tow and warm up routine motions of a once popular morning TV program. The cameraman tells us he’s been working for ten years. Throw in lashes of derogatory sexual comments, a conversation starter on the hashtag metoo campaign along with temper tantrums of a plummed-primadonna host and you have a bitch of a show.

Zeller has mastered the template of morning television typecasts with such marvelous finesse in a no frills performance with loads of diversity and colour.  Her understated appearance allows for quick transition from role to role via caricature and buoyant movement.

Senator Kylie speaks with a broad Australian accent, only interested in the educationalistic advancement of the nation. She is a real curio!

Contemporary placement of gags is well conceived, including her accent range from British, Australian and the American South, ranging from a Psychic reader who peruses the crowd, to infomercial sales of rope, a dig at Jenny Craig through to the menopausal Rhonda Burchmore, the show also includes a jab at the old Bert Newton show, along with many jocular reminders that we live in Australia.

This is more than just a prickly probe into the bizzare characters that work in the television industry, it is a punchy and confronting revelation of the current world we live in.

A must-see show for the side-splitting laughs and more.

Flora Georgiou