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Crazed Vitalstatistix/Frumpus Eclipse, FringeHUB, Feb 21 - March A quiet night at home in front of the fire, the virginal young women dressed in (inevitable) white nighties, attending to their petit pointe. The telephone rings. "Hello?" The caller hangs up... So begins the night of horror in 'Crazed', as five young women take us through a stereotype bashing exercise of the horror/slasher genre, where young women - who will always go into the cellar wearing only their underwear armed only with a torch with a flat battery - are inevitably portrayed as victim. And not a very bright one at that. Frumpus take the piss hilariously in this production, and toss the underlying moral of all these films (women are not safe on their own) down the gurgler with one of the better choreographed fight scenes seen for some times. There are wrestlers who could take lessons from these gals. The show is essentially a series of vignettes with our sewing circle as the reference point and the bookends. Some scenes are stronger than others, but excellent performances, particularly in terms of facial expression, make some of the flatter spots forgivable. Throughout most of the production, scenes from black and white movies, and film shot of the performers in character, flicker on a far too small screen; while this is interesting in a peripheral kind of way, it's too small and the subject matter too vague for it to sustain interest beyond the novelty factor. Fortunately the great performances keep the show pumping, and the twist in the tail shows that Frumpus are not prepared to accept woman as merely victim.  |
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