The Caravan of Love.

I love the new venue upstairs from Cookie in Curtin House. It's perfect for cabaret with its little black-laquered tables and chairs and a romantically framed stage. The Caravan of Love, however, did not give rise to similar emotions.

The show is narrated by an old woman who during her youth in a village in isolated Snowmanlandia witnesses the arrival of a caravan of 'four wild women' in her town. The women put on a show of song, dance, slapstick and wit the purpose of which, I believe, is to educate the people about 'kunst'. After the show, like the narrator, I found myself confused. Is this a Fringe show or a comedy?

The women in Caravan of Love have real talent but it seems somewhat wasted here. Sure, I admit the girls' frothy, feathery, knicker-flashing corsets were fabulous but the whole post-feminist tits-and-arse burlesque thing doesn't move me. Or maybe I'm just like the people of Snowmanlandia and too bourgeois to get my head around the 'kunst'?

The Caravan of Love - Kunst ist Scheisse. At Cookie.
5 - 14 April, Preview 5 April, 7.30pm

Review by amanda