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in The Garden is performed by Jo Randerson and Gentiane
Lupi and won Best Comedy at the 2003 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
The work is a 60-minute sketch comedy/theatre show which slowly
disintegrates, mirroring the cracks and rifts that develop
in society. The show is dark and absurd, and crosses politically
correct boundaries in a way that shocks, provokes and delights.
This show is about the war.
Cracks In The Garden is an easily tourable show that uses
comedy, dance and song to present a distinctly New Zealand
take on the complexities of conflict. The show has been performed
in Wellington (3 times), Auckland and Melbourne. In 2005 the
show travelled to the Edinburgh Fringe and featured at the
Prague Fringe Festival.
"…a comedy duo on the path to
self-destruction …the routines get more and more outlandish
…Randerson and Lupi pull out an utterly absurd solution
which had me laughing all the way home."
The Scotsman,
2005 ****
"Lupi and Randerson play with sexual,
emotional and intellectual tension coupled with definitions
of what is acceptable and what is not, usually opting for
what is not...It left the audience gob-smacked but delighted
at the audacity and genuine laughs...Randerson perform(s)
acts on a doll that are disgusting. But the audience, although
amazed at what they were seeing, lapped up the perverse comedy."
Capital
Times, Wellington, 2003
"Intelligent, disturbing, character-based comedy...
works brilliantly."
The
Age, Melbourne, 2003
Show DVDs are available, for further information
about this show, please contact
us.
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