‘Can we play a game please. It’s a pretty fun game…. For me!’
Laura Davis is back with her lists, facts and make-believe. It illustrates the difference a tour can make to a show: when I reviewed Laura last it was still in beta, now it been to Melbourne and back. Much of the facts and likewise jokes have changed, but retained is the ‘learning is fun’ blind enthusiasm and special treats of a kindy relief teacher, as well as experimenting how old one can be and still be ‘precocious’.
It’s not just animals she anthropomorphises anymore. There are benevolent fridges, co-dependant cars, and lawn furniture she’s done wrong by.
The good news is the bumpy bits are gone, the show is now smooth as a Bolas Spider’s silk. And we have lovely bookmarks! I don’t won’t to presume my advice was heeded, but regardless I now have nothing to complain about. Well, only that this class act deserves to be in a hallowed hall, not a nice-enough but unhallowed pub.
If you haven’t seen it yet…..well, tough luck. Find a time machine, or pay obscene amounts of money to fly Laura to your mansion with stage on ground. As a bonus party trick, not only is she good at comedy she’s ‘really good at distinguishing cutlery based on sound’.