Review - Glory Box

Finucane & Smith’s

Glory Box

La Revolucion

20 August – 13 September 2015

Melba Spiegeltent

Johnston Street Collingwood

In Circus Oz’s beautiful Melba Speigeltent through a hazy atmosphere one is escorted into a very adult world of the exuberant expression of ‘the feminine’ in a myriad of forms.  From the grotesque to the ultra feminine the disruption of gender conventions is releasing, sensual, erotic, racy, a little bit tongue in cheek and just a tad tawdry - all at the same time.

Clare St Clare and Moira Finucane

Be warned this amazing, ‘over the top’, ‘in your face’, show is not for the faint hearted.  And really you need to be a good sport and especially brave to sit in the front rows. 

But what a memorable evening you will have!

In this fantastic, intense and maybe even tense celebration of variations in gender and female sexuality the gusty larger than life, seemingly uncontainable, Moira Finucane excels, as do, all other unique and idiosyncratic performers.  

The whole moves at a rollicking pace with class act followed by the next class act.

Finucane, Mama Alto and Clare St Clare

One is fascinated and bemused by Mama Alto – described as a Countertenor Diva.  She/he has a beautiful voice and is accompanied exquisitely by Miss Chief on the piano, as is lovely sultry composed Clare St Clare.  Rocky Stone presents several acts with chairs and aerial work.  She is a strongwoman extraordinaire.  Holly Durant and Lily Paskas delight with dance.  Unsettling but divine and voluptuous is Durant’s female satyr.   All three wild guest divas, Yeshewambtat Maharete, Azaria Universe and Natasha May shine.

There are lashings of milk and tomato sauce and even the fun of a raffle.  The latter denoting heaps of support to get this troupe around the world; this time to Cuba as they have been invited to perform at the Havana International Theatre Festival.

Just bring your sense of humor and friends specially if they are a little on the wild side and be prepared to be surprised, well, quite probably shocked.   And maybe even astonished in a not

Rocky Stone

dissimilar way to the way we were stunned by Maude Davey and her outrageous act at the Club, just around the corner in Smith Street – over twenty five years ago.

Transcendent – don’t miss out on what everyone is marveling about and the chance for a liberating fun night out.

Suzanne Sandow

(For Stage Whispers)