Motor-Mouth Loves Suck-Face

The Armageddon is here - the world is ending - so let’s party it out.

Motor – Mouth Loves Suck Faceis an electrifying, eclectic teenage apocalypse musical currently on at La Mama’s Carlton Court House. Anthony Crowley a multi award winning playwright and diverse all rounder has written, directed, composed and designed this fabulous production.

Zombies, geeks, cyborgs, alien invasion, worm holes and global warming set this phantasmagorical play on fire with ceaseless teenage drama, heartbreak and sweepingly fantastic and bizarre entertainment.

Blasko Tupper (Sophie Smyth), a real gem of a performer, commands the show with; one of her many catchphrases such as “voodoo mind control”, she is a complex and dangerous teenage genius cyborg.  After doping her Russian spy parents Penelope Tupper (Danielle Matthews) and Christopher Tupper (Mark Jones) on salmon mousse, she holds the “party to end all parties”.

Motor Mouth (Brenton Gardiner) and Suck-Face (Eliza Grundy) are the perfect pair of geeky opposites, eager to lose their virginity before the end of the world. Their duet ‘I Want to Taste Your Fish Paste’ is so freakishly funny. Zombie – Boy (Patrick Schnur), ever-present in his stage nook, oversees the shenanigans; he rules in the full cast song and dance routine of  “Suck My Armageddon’.

The production is perfectly cast with generous and zany performances of offbeat teenage stereotypes - Selena Gomez as obsessed Tiffany Flake (Megan Scolyer- Gray), the almost perfect teenage couple Sarah Titan (Sophie Jackson) and Zach Stellar (Elias Jabbour), plus the neo-gothic girl battling cancer Hilary Fernandez (Isabella Ferrer) and the funky Hugo Dude (Luke Wilson).

The musicians, including percussion and guitar, sit to the side of the stage, directed by the keyboard player Ana Mitsikas. The lighting and set design, both colorful and quirkily robust, further enhance this masterfully outlandish production.

Flora Georgiou