In Helvetica. Tuxedo Cat – Cusack Theatre. 3 Mar 2016
So many words, so many actions to wonderfully give life to the notion of being speechless in the myriad of whacked out situations Sara and Toni find themselves in.
It’s too much fun, how excellent!
Toni Main and Sara Di Segna crash together in a union of hope from seemingly hopeless circumstances and do their very best for each other as life coaches, after a sort, for their sense of being absurd to the world and getting life wrong.
As third eye, Georgina Capper has ensured that the performance is wonderfully fluid. The blend of improv contemporary choreography, surreal conversation and pained effort to ‘get it right’ is crystal clear to an audience and unfailingly pleasing as much as it is mad in such a polite way. The text is deliciously absurd, as it is understandable as a big, deep and meaningful discourse between two women trapped in comically absurd circumstances and preconceptions of themselves they hate.
These artists are acutely aware of their audience. Speechless is about an audience and hoping to goodness they like you, that you say the right things, and aren’t ridiculous in the process. Being ridiculous is so wonderfully much better for the soul.
David O’Brien
When: 3 to 8 March
Where: Tuxedo Cat – Cusack Theatre
Bookings: adelaidefringe.com.au
