Love Triangle
This year Alison Bice, Peter Morley, Halley Metcalfe and Simon Godfrey have joined forces to present a show that showcases their stand up talents. A few other goodies are thrown in to mix things up.
A kind of dark undertone was set by the opening sequence. It involved a sing along to “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”, a death on the stage and following the credo that “the show must go on”.
First up was Peter Morley who presented material covering various topics, all delivered at considerable volume and with great enthusiasm. Also of interest was his inclusion of some topical material regarding Tom Cruise and placenta consumption. Although it didn’t get huge laughs, I applaud his efforts in being spontaneous. His method of exiting the stage at the end of his set was particularly interesting, where he was distracted when Simon stepped onto the stage reading a book.
Next we had the comedy stylings of Halley Metcalfe who was introduced by use of video footage of the Nazi Army. This was either a link to her material on cinema patronage or just an opportunity to continue with the dark undertones. She performed “a best of” her material including her Grandma, fare evasion and her future objectives in becoming a teacher. Halley also took the bold step of following up on Peter’s placenta material with similar results.
After Halley’s set, we were treated to a short sketch about a job interview featuring a suitably bizzare line of questioning. This sketch was also used to make the transition to Simon’s set by referring to him in the final question.
Simon Godfrey was someone I hadn’t seen perform before. His delivery was very casual and laid back. His material was slightly left of centre and covered topics such as Communism, witch hunts in the middle ages and World War Two (in an obvious reference to Halley’s intro).
The final stand up piece was performed by Alison Bice. In a personal show highlight, her set was preceded by an extended video in which Alison discussed her life as a female comic. Playing up on the stereotypes, it was gold. Despite suffering a cold, Bicey performed a solid set of stand up containing her trademark dark edginess which evoked much laughter.
Following Alison’s set, she was joined by the rest of the cast for a final piece in which they discussed what sketch they should perform to end the show. The banter between them was great and benefited from some improvisation by Peter that had the rest of the cast (as well as the audience) in hysterics. Appropriately, this ended in a wonderfully chaotic mess and we were instructed by a video graphic “Now Get Out”.
All the performers had varying styles of performance which made for an interesting and varied show. This variation also helped in their interaction with each other in the group sketches. It was obvious that the cast were enjoying themselves on stage and there were even some audible giggling from back stage which may or may not have been related to the on stage action.
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