There are times when you see a show and know that you are watching a cult hit in its early days. There was stuff going on on that stage tonight that was so hilarious that the players themselves were reduced to tears and having to hide their heads behind scripts or each other. It will never be the same once the business is set and the sure fire gags honed and frozen but even then it will be as funny a night as you could ever wish for.
Using five chairs in a semi circle and loads of props the company recreates a goonish radio studio take on the already loony "Black Swan" and turns the original into a wild and brilliantly inventive romp.
There is stunning ensemble clowning from Christopher Coulson who plays the Ballet director and takes the French accent into outer space,
Matthew Wilkas as the doubly disturbed Winona Ryder and multiple chorines,
gorgeous Randy Harrison who out acts Barbara Hershey and turns his face into a monster version of her with a roll of sticky tape
with a snakily sexy Jack Ferver as Mila Kunis and the out of this world comedienne, Jenn Harris. If these were the golden years of Broadway and television Miss Harris would be up there with Imogene Coca, Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball.
This will surely travel but, as I said, will never be better than at its little home at Performance Space 122 (tt)
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