Double Bill at the Blue Room
Tue, 25 Jan 2005, 05:05 pmWalter Plinge2 posts in thread
Double Bill at the Blue Room
Tue, 25 Jan 2005, 05:05 pmJust a quickie to say that the plays on at the Blue Room are fabulous. They are both black comedies and very well acted, designed and directed. The show finishes its run on Feb 5th so you've still got a couple of weeks but I do advise to book, it was full the night I went (Thurs) which is a good indication. Call Amber at the Blue Room on 9227 7005.
The show runs from 8pm this Thurs - Sat and there is a matinee on Sunday at 3pm.
The shows are both about 40 mins each with a 20 min interval.
Kitchen by Van Badham and A Change in the Weather by Damon Lockwood.
Cast: Alix Lightfoot, Allan Girod, Damon and Talei Howell-Price.
The show runs from 8pm this Thurs - Sat and there is a matinee on Sunday at 3pm.
The shows are both about 40 mins each with a 20 min interval.
Kitchen by Van Badham and A Change in the Weather by Damon Lockwood.
Cast: Alix Lightfoot, Allan Girod, Damon and Talei Howell-Price.
Kitchen / Change In the Weather
Wed, 2 Feb 2005, 12:26 pm2 short and snappy one-act plays presented as a double bill at the Blue Room....both of them well worth seeing.
Kitchen, by Van Badham, starring Talei Howell-Price and Damon Lockwood, is a study of a disfunctional relationship that swings from bad to worse in a black expose of partnership power struggles. Damon and Talei are slick and engaging as the manic couple who fight it out in the kitchen of their apartment, with hilariously tragic results.
I loved the design of the kitchen, the audience on both sides put you intimately into the action. A great use of the space and quite a different look for the BlueRoom...the play ended rather abruptly, building up to a crazy slap-in-the-face type visual joke, but leaving us rather wanting to see more.
So after a brief set change, we got more. A very similar set in style and design, and yet a stylish transformation: another excellent design. Damon and Talei as another disfunctional couple (..!) are joined by Alan Girod and Alix Lightfoot in 'A Change In The Weather', written by Damon Lockwood.
This too was great. We're immediately launched into a great set-up; a man who thinks he can't fail at anything invites his lover to his house, thinking he will get away with it in front of his wife by pretending it's his boss's girlfriend...of course he hasn't told his boss yet.
Damon was characteristically flamboyant, brash and debonaire as the weatherman who thinks he can control the events in his life. Alan had some wonderful turnarounds as the mild-mannered boss who is dragged into the scheme and forced to cover on the spot, alternating between emotional states of worry, fear, bravado and lust. Alix was sultry and sexy, playing the lover with a feline playfulness which turned into pouty disdain. And Talei as the distraught wife who knows more than she reveals played a great range of complex emotions. Once again a pretty tight story which ended with us wanting to see more.
A great collaboration between Rockwood productions and Damage theatre, very capably directed by Adam Mitchell. Not only the design, but the sound was noticeably excellent; also some good effects, great publicity photos, and programme information I didn't know about the monkey-faced bats of Eastern Melanesia..!
Go and see it....closes this week!
Cheers
Craig
Kitchen, by Van Badham, starring Talei Howell-Price and Damon Lockwood, is a study of a disfunctional relationship that swings from bad to worse in a black expose of partnership power struggles. Damon and Talei are slick and engaging as the manic couple who fight it out in the kitchen of their apartment, with hilariously tragic results.
I loved the design of the kitchen, the audience on both sides put you intimately into the action. A great use of the space and quite a different look for the BlueRoom...the play ended rather abruptly, building up to a crazy slap-in-the-face type visual joke, but leaving us rather wanting to see more.
So after a brief set change, we got more. A very similar set in style and design, and yet a stylish transformation: another excellent design. Damon and Talei as another disfunctional couple (..!) are joined by Alan Girod and Alix Lightfoot in 'A Change In The Weather', written by Damon Lockwood.
This too was great. We're immediately launched into a great set-up; a man who thinks he can't fail at anything invites his lover to his house, thinking he will get away with it in front of his wife by pretending it's his boss's girlfriend...of course he hasn't told his boss yet.
Damon was characteristically flamboyant, brash and debonaire as the weatherman who thinks he can control the events in his life. Alan had some wonderful turnarounds as the mild-mannered boss who is dragged into the scheme and forced to cover on the spot, alternating between emotional states of worry, fear, bravado and lust. Alix was sultry and sexy, playing the lover with a feline playfulness which turned into pouty disdain. And Talei as the distraught wife who knows more than she reveals played a great range of complex emotions. Once again a pretty tight story which ended with us wanting to see more.
A great collaboration between Rockwood productions and Damage theatre, very capably directed by Adam Mitchell. Not only the design, but the sound was noticeably excellent; also some good effects, great publicity photos, and programme information I didn't know about the monkey-faced bats of Eastern Melanesia..!
Go and see it....closes this week!
Cheers
Craig