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Uber Alice - The Elaborate Adventures Of A New Zealand Manicurist Epicworld Level 4 Union House - FringeHUB Until Sun 14 March God has decided to end the world, and after making this known to the whole population she decides that rather than come up with any ideas about mankind's replacement for a new creation herself, she'd run a competition asking for us doomed mortals to write in with any suggestions. The winner, Emily Winkins from New Zealand, who for reasons explained during the introduction, is from hereon known as Alice and is now, along with two strangers and Errol the bird, running to escape from her mum and a flock of evil sheep. Along the way they are fighting off flame throwing Great Spirits as they make their way to Hollywood. Uber Alice is as enticing and as bizarre as the title and plot proposes, and with a few twists of a plain white t-shirt, a plastic whistle, a packet of biscuits and couple of chairs, some paper cut outs and a slide projector, Jonno Katz manically brings to life Emily/Alice's vision of a brave new, chaos filled world. The result is a story that's so over the top, deliberately confusing and physically and mentally so hard to keep up with because of the constant twists and turns, you can't help but become drawn in by it all. You literally have to restrain your own laughter in order not to miss any of the rapid fire one liners and puns. Looking around the audience during this performance they, like myself, appeared to be mesmerised by both Katz's boundless energy and totally immersed by his amiable ever-imaginative sense of being. Uber Alice is equally deft as it is daft, making it without doubt one of the most intelligently devised, yet silliest and absolute funniest hours you're likely to take in all Fringe. |
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