Reviews

Perfect? If only.

Yon, Scod, and Gatesy have joined forces with Eddie Perfect (hence the title) to present a tribute, largely a cappella, to the music of Australia. The songs are generally delivered in a more 'mature' and less overtly comic manner than the boys from Tripod have been known for in the past, though both the musical arrangements and between-song patter contain their fair share of amusement.

The Boat People concerns a couple of purported Iranian refugees who long ago arrived in Australia illegally on-board leaky boats. They make it big time with a range of fast food with kooky non-PC names, get rich, get noticed by the media and then cruise into politics. This is a comedy satirising current supposed Anglo-Australian attitudes to refugees who are happy to refer to themselves by the very non-PC term ‘reffos’.

It’s easy to be cynical about the central premise of “Davi Sings Sinatra” – history is filled with musically limited actors who have used their fame in another medium to get what amount to embarrassing vanity projects off the ground (Bruce Willis’ “The Return Of Bruno” or William Shatner’s “The Transformed Man” anybody?).

Left is a wonderful circus work that explores community, relationships, loss and recovery while leaping, tumbling, balancing and juggling.

Reading the director’s program notes after the show was interesting. Learning that some performers had never been on stage before, and agreeing that the director’s visual aesthetic had been totally realized - “ to create a show that is just ‘theatre’ enough to retain the magic of a live show, and not so much that you forget you are watching real humans doing real, risky things”.