Duck, Duck, Goose

Thu, 18 Sept 2008, 07:41 am

‘Duck, Duck, Goose’ collaboratively devised by Sarah Rueben and Arielle Gray, and written by Jeffrey Jay Fowler this is a Blue Room and Gray Ruby Production. A Pride WA Festival Event, this 50-minute play is presented at the Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge from 17^th September until 4^th October each evening at 8.00 pm.

Heather (Sarah Rueben) and Lucy (Arielle Gray) have been best friends since primary school, and are inseparable. At an early age, they pledged to a life of chastity, after all ‘have you seen a drawing of a penis?’
They live together, eat together, and remain virgins together – until Lucy decides there must be more to sex than she alone can provide. Her search takes her to a young man, LOL (Tim Watts), on the rebound from a lost love. Will Lucy have the nerve to carry out her desires, or stay true to Heather?

The set has to be unique, with duck and goose feathers everywhere, floor, walls – everywhere! Tim Watts’ animation was of a very high standard, both in drawing and morphing. Jeffrey Jay Fowler’s direction was punchy, he had the girls deliver their lines with naïve innocence, spoken condescendingly as they do on a TV children’s show. Three well thought out characters.
Plenty of laughs from the script filled with insane similes. The applause lasted long after the actors left the stage.

Well put together

Sun, 5 Oct 2008, 08:46 am

jmuzz

We went and say this on closing night with a couple of friends. I saw Hope Is The Saddest earlier in the year and had really enjoyed that so it was with genuine anticipation that we walked into the feather strewn Blue Room last nite. Some very funny dialogue, some very nice performances, clever use of animation and light. My one bitch was that it was all over very quickly but if you leave an audience wanting more, that's a good sign I guess. I wouldn't say all the ideas coalesced successfully - what I mean by that is that whilst the first half or so of the play had a generally cohesive linear story to it, the second half (maybe final third) was a tad more random and perhaps didn't translate to a thicko like myself as well as it might have. This I guess is the potential risk you take with collaborative ventures of this type but regardless I didn't see anyone checking their watch or coughing or any of the other signs that they were losing interest. Well done all - wish I could write dialogue like that, strong acting throughout, good nite out :)

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Duck, Duck, Goose— Gordon the Optom18 Sept 2008

So after a break from my— Garreth21 Sept 2008
- Thanks!— Jeffrey Jay Fowler21 Sept 2008
  - Civilised Man— crgwllms5 Oct 2008
- The performance was sharp, — Walter Plinge26 Sept 2008
Garreth, Get a life mate. — Walter Plinge22 Sept 2008
- uhh... I have a life...— Garreth22 Sept 2008
The Bright Side— Freddie Badgery24 Sept 2008
- Duck, Duck, Goose Review— Walter Plinge25 Sept 2008
  - "Thirdly, I am not— Freddie Badgery25 Sept 2008
  - Freddie, Spot on:) My— Walter Plinge25 Sept 2008
  - Yeah fair enough, I see— Garreth25 Sept 2008
    - But why do a review at all— Walter Plinge26 Sept 2008
      - ···
        Well— Logos26 Sept 2008
Well put together— jmuzz5 Oct 2008

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