May 7, 2009
Two mates are painting a friend’s flat. They are your worst nightmare in terms of decorators – easily distracted, constantly tinkering with (and breaking) their friend’s stuff, and crap at painting – but they are TOTALLY BRILLIANT as entertainers, and managed to keep an audience of sulky teens entranced and exhilarated for two hours.
It’s not a dance show or stand-up comedy or a play, but a sort of extended music-hall turn which includes the two blokes imitating rhythm and bass with just their mouths in best hip-hop fashion, miming dj-ing, awesome break-dancing, meanwhile developing a dialogue which reveals their friendship, their relationships, their anxieties, their dreams, and is also extremely funny.
The blokes – Matt Bailey and Joey D – are incredibly talented and their show is amazingly versatile, clever, funny, playful, inventive, and animated by an unusual and powerful masculine energy. They’re sort of the exact opposite of Vladimir and Estragon. Give them a stick and they’d play with it for hours. They present their characters as infantile and are by turns infuriating and adorable, but my goodness they earn the audience’s respect and (finally) adulation. This is only in Oxford for one more night – definitely a must-see.
It’s not a dance show or stand-up comedy or a play, but a sort of extended music-hall turn which includes the two blokes imitating rhythm and bass with just their mouths in best hip-hop fashion, miming dj-ing, awesome break-dancing, meanwhile developing a dialogue which reveals their friendship, their relationships, their anxieties, their dreams, and is also extremely funny.
The blokes – Matt Bailey and Joey D – are incredibly talented and their show is amazingly versatile, clever, funny, playful, inventive, and animated by an unusual and powerful masculine energy. They’re sort of the exact opposite of Vladimir and Estragon. Give them a stick and they’d play with it for hours. They present their characters as infantile and are by turns infuriating and adorable, but my goodness they earn the audience’s respect and (finally) adulation. This is only in Oxford for one more night – definitely a must-see.