Strut & Fret Production House. The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Deluxe. 22 Feb 2015
Out she comes, dressed in nothing but bright blue paint, with boofed up blue hair, Yana Alana's curvaceous contours smack the senses. After further celebrating blue in song and with blue flowers and curtains, she blows her own horn, figuratively and literally, in this risky and unpredictable show.
In her quotes from her fictitious book, 'Go Fuck Yourself,' marvelously witty ditties sung in her sparkling voice, and a major running blue with her dour keyboard accompanist over her inappropriate phone use during the show, we get Yana Alana as the blue bitch in her One Woman Show, which is very nearly a two-woman show.
In between scenes concerning medication, mediation and meditation, Yana belts out her original songs with a vigorous gusto. Having fired the accompanist, Yana attempts to carry on with the help of an audience member at the keyboard, and of course this doesn't work out and the show pretends to grind to a halt. But she reinvigorates with a hilarious song about not being able to say sorry - a topic close to all Australians on a political and personal level.
Introducing herself, she invited the audience to be as honest and revealing as she would be. In a self-disclosing show such as this, I am often distracted by thinking about what's behind the material. What's under the blue paint? Yana Alana the comedian, singer and award-winning cabaret performer in her vivisection of performance art and artists.
David Grybowski
When: 13 Feb to 1 Mar
Where: The Garden of Unearthly Delights - Deluxe
Bookings: adelaidefringe.com.au
