REFRESHINGLY INTELLIGENT, UNCYNICAL AND QUIRKY |
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) Laugh Experiences Little Moustache at Fringe Bar, Cnr Cuba & Vivian, Wellington From 24 Feb 2010 to 27 Feb 2010 Reviewed by Maryanne Cathro, 25 Feb 2010 |
Chelsea Hughes, Natalie (Nat) Britten and Danni Taylor are “Little Moustache” (pronounced leetle not luttle). They are very, very funny.
Chelsea is from Texas, where they love God and junk food and sometimes both at once! At 30, she is the oldest of the trio and her observations on marriage are original and funny and, well, very true!
Nat I have seen before at a Raw Meat Monday, and the addition of a ukulele has really brought her material to life. Who’d have thought? A ukulele! Nat wants us to believe that she’s not normal, but it is the kind of not normal that everyone is.
Danni is 21 and from the UK and her presentation, humour and obvious intelligence (the glasses are a clue apparently) remind me of Irish comedienne Maeve Higgins.
Laugh Experiences is a show about the humour in every day life, sometimes taken to the absurd extreme. I love this kind of humour best, and these performers handle it very well. Their different styles dance together effortlessly.
The show comprises alternating sketches and stand up. The first sketch, from which the trio derives their name, involves a French pharmacist trying to work out what the customer wants from her appearance (you have a leetle moustache!). Next, a pirate is interviewed by a recruiting consultant, and lastly a new employee gets the first degree from her new boss.
Sketches like this are not often seen on stage, but it is an excellent live comedy delivery style. Alternating with each performer doing a stand up set, the show lasts an hour.
Get along to see this show with its refreshingly intelligent, uncynical and quirky approach to making us laugh. Which the audience did a lot!
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