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One Night Stand Enda Markey Feast @ Fowler's Live, Sun 7 Nov With dialogue by the award winning Eddie Perfect, Irish cabaret artist Enda Markey's show 'One Night Stand' proves itself to be an early highlight of this year's Feast festival. Designed around the idea of The Seven Deadly Sins, Markey and Perfect have, instead of following the likes of Christopher Marlowe and Bertolt Brecht, transmogrified the notion into a set of Commandments when applied to the post-internet ideals of the modern urban gay lifestyle. Ingeniously tied together by Eddie Perfect's often salacious dialogue, this fine expat Irish tenor brings together a series of witty and often irreverent collection of songs from the equally satirical 'Flaming Aida', a contemporary rewrite of Noel Coward's 'It's Taboo' and even the divinely talented Rufus Wainwright's 'Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk' to create an entertaining, highly irreverent and naughty reclaiming of those things in life that all good Christians should avoid. Highlights include Making Love Alone, a riotous paean to the joys of masturbation, a lyrically pointed and acerbic take on Rufus' Cigarettes as well as the changed context, not to mention the closing Coward rewrite. In a festival that seems to focus as much on the celebration of gay lifestyles and talent, the appreciative audience lapped up not only the considerable vocal talent of Markey himself and the pianism of the Weimar Room's Matt Gilbertson but also the naughty witticism of Perfect's dialogue and Markey's all too appropriate choice of material and his professional and musical delivery of it. However, and this is a rather minor caveat, why is it that the miking of upright pianos often seems to create problems for the sound desk?  |
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