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drinks Monday 1 September 08 Edinburgh Reunion in London
Topping And Butch Hit Leicester Square 26-27 September 08
McCloud and Black
Verdict: Office comedy sparkling with brilliance.
Edinburgh - Pleasance - August 2002
Oh what joy! A comedy by two outrageously sexy women that's funny,
crackling with laughs from start to finish, with a take on office life
of such breathtaking obscenity (in the nicest possible way), that
makes photocopying your bottom, well, amateur.
Not that bottoms are excluded. Saskia (Jessica McCloud) cruelly
exposes Petunia (Laura Black)'s and it features prominently in
the excellent movie footage that intercuts Black and McCloud's
exquisite live performances.
Saskia and Petunia are two well-bred gels at war and peace at
adjacent desks. They're established fast as individual and wholly
believable characters interested in parties, holidays, and sex,
specifically in unseen Richard upstairs. Petunia's embarrassing
emotional moment of last summer at 'Rick-Hard's Love Pad'
is hinted at, and finally, er, exposed, and Saskia's experiences
as a graduate of Lucy Clayton's Finishing School go some way
to explaining its enduring popularity.
As the story races dangerously towards the office party, there are
louche moments in a tanning salon, identical tu-tu disasters,
spectacular drinking, new ways of using those office chairs on
castors to which you'd previously not given a second thought,
and a revelation of the adhesive pitfalls of melting underwear.
For anyone who has ever worked in an office, or may be returning to one
after the fringe - beware. You'll never send an email in quite the
same way again.
Written, performed, and directed by Jessica McCloud and Laura Black.
Film shot and edited by Richard Jones. Technicals at preview by
Rupert Lally.
END
John Park
reviewed at preview Monday 22 July 2002
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