Review by Steve Bennett

Review

This is an Irish troupe uncertain whether they are performing a sketch show or a slightly scandalous cabaret.

The four girls and their musical man certainly want to be outrageous. The girls keep taking off their togs and having a wiggle without any real excuse ­ as if continually prancing around in skimpy underwear is anything to do with female empowerment.

One song was titled You Should Really See Me With My Clothes On. If only!

In between would-be torch songs, skits on RTE afternoon TV shows, underwear and random swear words which don't outrage, there is the germ of a show here, smothered by too much attempted shock and performance art. It needs a single concept thread to hold it together.

Then, from nowhere, came one stand-out song, Only Half A Hen, sung by a girl in a hen mask and wearing feathers. And she did not just sing it, sShe performed it; she lived it with all her soul with small, twitchy, bird-like movements. A triumph. And she kept her feathers on.

John Fleming

Review date: 1 Jan 2006
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett