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The Soap Kitchen
Verdict: Sharp, funny, right off the cuff
The Soap Kitchen is an improvised soap opera based on weird suggestions from the audience.
How do five people get from The Rotten Monkey (the day's title), via a Brazilian waxer for men (a profession) and end up with an odd place to keep an elephant (the closing line)? Ruth Bratt, Gareth Kane, Steve Keyworth, Lloyd Stephens and Rachel Woollett find a way.
It can’t be easy to come up with fresh and funny dialogue each day - but this quintet manage brilliantly, despite a small audience.
Michelle (Ruth Bratt) pushes her road-sweeper hubby (Gareth Kane) to the limits of physical fitness, with a rigid regime of diet, exercise and a nasty surprise (back, sack and crack wax) at the local beauty salon.
Children’s entertainer Neville aka Judas the Clown (Steve Keyworth) is allergic to cake and hates kids. So what is he doing at the mayor’s house with the mayor (Lloyd Stephens) and his wife (Rachel Woollett) and two brats?.
Answer - getting done for indecent exposure. Out of a job, Neville ends up dressed as a monkey, handing out flyers - where he meets other animal-impersonators.
To spice up their sex life, Michelle and hubby decide on animal fun with Neville the Bad Monkey - and an elephant (Rachel Woollett).
Needless to say, they are interrupted by their young son (Lloyd Stephens), who utters the immortal line - 'That’s an odd place to keep an elephant!'
Cast Credits: (alpha order): Ruth Bratt, Gareth Kane, Steve Keyworth, Lloyd Stephens, Rachel Woollett.
Company Credits: Produced, written and promoted by the cast.
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(c) Lea Harris 2005
reviewed 18 August 05 / City Café
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2012
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