Went to comedy show The Talking Vagina, which is part of The 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I saw this show last year when my friend Daniel Rice was acting in it. I reviewed it in this blog here. I thoroughly enjoyed it last time. This time Daniel was directing it (it was his directorial debut!). It is hard to compare the two because this time there was a smaller and partly different cast and the venue was not exactly theatre friendly.

I enjoyed myself tonight as well. The roles of Jessica and her “fou fou” Frank were played by the same actors. They were just as funny this time but must saying I liked Frank last time better with the beard! Better suited to play a fou fou as described in the dialogue. In my reivew from last year I mentioned that I loved the Mr Wong character heaps, so I was disappointed that it was a different actor. The new Mr Wong took a bit to warm to, but he had some golden moments. Still I preffered the old one.

The set was as bare as you could get this time (even more so than last year) but it worked well enough. I really liked the scene where Jessica’s boyfriend Edward was helping Frank record a voice demo under the sheets while Jessica was sleeping.

The fou fou group meeting scene was also better last year, but if anything it was because there were more actors to play more characters than this year. But I really should stop comparing because they are so different. What I got tonight was a more casual approach (intentional?) and once or twice the actors got the giggles and lines were probably muffed (pun intended). Was quite amusing and well done for the improv and reigning it back in. At one point the actor who plays Mr Wong was doing another character but after getting the giggles went into the Mr Wong accent by mistake.  Saved it somehow. FUNNY.

The crowd was pretty big and everyone had a good laugh, including me. Don’t know how to do a proper review. Congrats to Dan for directing his first show!