Devised and directed by Miriam Noonan. Devised and performed by Bronwyn Wallace, Feather Emma Shaw, James Caley, Luke Agnew, Nylla Tamati and Piupiu-Maya Turei, (3.5/5).
Frequency! was pretty darn hilarious. With the loudest and raspiest laugh in the theatre, I was afraid I would put the actors off, but boy-oh-boy were they on form today. This devised piece was inspired by the plethora of miscommunications we, as people, generate in our everyday lives: from the physical to the silent, to the spoken to the technological, we often find ourselves failing to communicate effectively. Such is life.
This talented team brought to life many of the moments we would often like to forget. Awkward hugs, cringe! Pashing someone, then sitting in an awkward silence for waaay too long, double cringe! All of these moments are, of course, hysterical from the audience’s perspective.
Stage space was awesomely original and refreshing, ‘nuff said. Noonan cast a really diverse and complimentary group of performers, who clearly had a lot of fun in the process of making the piece.
My fav bits: the text ‘conversation’ which was passive aggressive and created massive lols. But, the very BEST bit was the massive pay-off to the ‘MAKE UP MADE UP’ scenes – which I didn’t really get right until the end, oh but when I did, LOL!
All in all this was a very strong start to Semester Two 2011, very thoughtful, very tight and extremely funny. More please?!
Frequency!
