Beige Bitch

Beige Bitch elicits many, many laughs from the audience.  Emily Carr has a delightful stage presence and sweeps her audience along on a fun rocky journey for a solid 60 minutes of wacky lively anecdotes, lived experiences and story.  It’s an aspiring actor’s story really – recognisable and very real and far from mediocre.

Proceedings start with the disconcerting conceit that the audience has lobbed in for a rehearsal not an actual show. Then there is some really classy use of projected material.  This relaxes everyone; performer and audience can take a breath.  On the evening I attended it relaxed the audience so much that a number of people moved to the front to avail themselves for some audience interaction.  They thoroughly enjoyed themselves from thence.  

Director Jackson McGovern keeps proceedings vital by moving the focus around the auditorium.

This really fun show has some strange moments where two or three times it does seem to fall into a bit of a hiatus, but it barely staggers, and Ms Carr just moves on. She truly engages her audience, but not so much the benefits of being beige, because she is just not even slightly beige! This show is more about the difficulties of not being beige enough to be cast in the humdrum jobs she auditions for. 

Ms Carr is also a registered Marriage Celebrant, a job at which I am sure she excels – bringing lovely energy, genuine warmth and even a lively ironic sense of humour if required.

With vitality, a self-deprecating wit, clever projections and the perceptive manipulation of the audience Ms Carr presents an exemplary show that does not disappoint.  It is great fun, exhilarating and well worth catching.

Suzanne Sandow