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Black And Tran 2 The Two Marketeers Nova Cinema Season Closed This show starts off with two market stallholders, Ridgy Didj and Muddy Rivers, setting up their trestles ready for a long day's trading. Not a word is exchanged between them during this process, but the laughs soon begin to ripple throughout the venue as the audience start to notice their respective wares for sale. Didj, played by Vietnamese comedian Hung Le is selling obviously fake Koori artefacts, and Rivers, played by Aboriginal actor John Harding, a range of dodgy quality t-shirts. Between customers (Amber McMahon playing both the American and German tourists), they become embroiled in a series of topics for conversation which, despite much of their comically askew recollections of Australian history and observation of current affairs and politics seeing them leaning slightly towards the absurd side, there was more than enough cleverly placed factual references to reinforce some valid points on a number of cultural issues. Looking over at his mate's stall, Rivers points out that he was displaying the Aboriginal flag upside-down, "Nah, it was made that way," replies Didj, "to avoid copyright." And so the bad puns and droll lines continue, each dryly spoken out in more of a theatrical manner rather than stand up, and each met with a hybrid blend of groaning and laughter from the audience. Yet, coming from both an Asian and a Koori background, it's Le and Harding's more astute reflections on how they perceive the views of the average mono-cultural Australian that offers this show some edifying creditability. Revamping the words to some big hits from the likes of Michael Jackson (Blame It On The Dingo), Coolio (Surfer's Parasite) and The Temptations (Don't Look Black) the pair managed to humorously put forth some (double edged) opinions without appearing to be on their soapboxes - it's an adept, satirical piss take on the stereotypical racist, wherever they're from and whatever colour they may be. |
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