Devised & performed by Ange Lavoipierre & Jane Watt. Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The Butterfly Club Downstairs. 27 March – 2 April, 2023
This is a daffy, clowning, faux-amateur, absurd, and very funny fifty-five minutes. The alternative in the title is never resolved. On stage, there are two chairs and a metal bucket. Ange comes on with a confident but somehow dangerous smile. Jane sort of stumbles onto the stage; her smile is anxious, more of a rictus of terror. The contrast is pretty much how they’ll go on. The know-it-all smartie and the dope, the foil, the unwitting comic relief. The White Clown and the Stumblebum. Both are dressed as primary school kids: gre