Duck, Duck, Goose

‘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.

The performance was sharp, It raised so many questions about the problems faced by generation-y, without preaching or being condescending. The performances were solid, with Sarah Rueben particularly clever. There were a few apparent flaws in the technical aspects on the night I attended. More to the point, we all have opinions on every show we see. We are entitled to these opinions. But when objectivity is not truely possible, including in a review between people who know each other, things are best left said in private. Particularly when such a negative unhelpful view is held. It is just offensive to say that the creators didn't care about their work. Tracey, you appear as much as a bully as the person you are attacking.

The performance was sharp,

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