I unfortunately only caught the last of the three big cabaret nights at CASA marking The SOAR Emerging Artists Festival, June 5.
I arrived in time to catch Jesse Plessis playing a complicated piano piece which featured dissonant chord sand jarring moments of silence.
After that was a short play by Cassandra Watson about two room mates.
One loses it and gets fired from his job so he tries to figure out what to do with his life with the help of his bad influence friend who convinces him to go into the drug distribution business.
The CASA community room has a pretty high ceiling, which leads to a lot of echoes w
hich made it difficult to understand some of the dialogue.
There was some nice spoken word from Raine Sillito backed by Neil Fox playing pretty arpeggios on guitar.
After that, crazy clowns Aimieé McGurk and Meredith Pritchard had some high energy child like fun making a mess as consumers with band aids, Kentucky Fried chicken, a slinky and a whole lot of mess on the floor.
Commercials for popular products like a Slinky and Kentucky Fried chicken played din the background as the duo raced around the stage. They ended their show by “making dinner” for the audience out of candies, raw eggs, watermelon, band aids and whatever else they could find.
