REVIEW: Briefs: The Second Coming

REVIEW: Briefs: The Second Coming
Image: Photo: Chantel Concei

The Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent is the perfect venue for this all-male cabaret, with its great variety of acts from striptease to dance to acrobatics to magic.

Ipswich boy Fez Fa’anana no doubt has his Samoan origins to thank for the physicality and musicality of the show he has created with his five fellow performers.

Fez is hostess for the evening, providing a running commentary on the origins of the show, on politics, on life and love, and everything in between.

Apart from the fabulous costumes, what distinguishes this show is its strong dose of comedy that undercuts the titillation and explodes the pornographic element in a volley of laughter.

Drag queen Dallas Dellaforce is gorgeously arresting in her lip-synching routine, while schoolboy Louis Biggs plays around with a yoyo and a Rubik’s cube and shows he is both extremely dexterous and very smart.

Mark Winmill (aka ‘Captain Kidd’) splashes around and in a large elegant birdbath in a flashy routine that requires giving the front rows plastic sheets to shelter behind.

And in the straightest of the acts, Thomas Worrell’s performances on aerial hoop and silks are breathtakingly beautiful and, surprisingly, not at all naughty.

My only quibble with the show is that Fez needs to sharpen up his patter in a case of “less is more”.

It’s a gorgeous show and will have you amused, engaged and titillated from beginning to end.

A word of warning: watch out lest you win the highly unusual raffle prize and are selected to go up on stage to collect it. (ID)

Until Jan 22, varied performance times. The Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent at the Meriton Festival Village, Hyde Park. $63-$80. Tickets & info: www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2017/briefs 

 

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