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The Dolls.
 The Dolls are three big hatted country crooning gals with big 'ol broken hearts to match. Unlucky in love maybe, but armed with a repertoire chock full of unabashed spite and unapologetic vitriol, all delivered with a whole lot of barbed humour and harmonious twang all aimed that those who gone done them wrong, I'm just plum guessing that somehow life's will one day turn out just plain dandy for this local band of desperado divas.
But for now The Dolls: Charlotte Mudge, Bronwyn Gell and Lissy Elliot, have gathered up all the womanly wit and wisdom that they could muster and with the help of Sigmund Freud are now set to unleash their woes in their first ever Fringe production, 'In Freudian Slips'.
"Well we still haven't quite decided whether or not that gives an indication of the material we're performing or what we'll be wearing," ponders Mudge, referring to the show's title. "but we think that it'll be both and it's all our original songs with no covers," she adds, "so there's no Dolly [Parton].
"But Dolly will be there in spirit," affirms Gell.
"Yeah, at least by the amount of cleavage that will be in the room," agrees Mudge, "and I suppose it'll be more of a structured show but we'll still leave some room for our usual girly talk and spontaneous antics. And we'll all have radio hand-held microphones so the audience better bloody watch out," she warns.
That last remark sparking the following volley from the two, starting with Gell: "Yeah, we can move around..." "We can get out there..." "We can get at people..." "And on people... "Be in their faces..." "Yeah..."
"And on their laps..." "But only if we feel like it...." "Yeah, and don't get those quotes mixed up," concludes Gell, threateningly.
With the proposed possibility of negligee and cleavage, I suggest that this may entice a few more blokes to the show.
"Do you think so?" responds Mudge. "Hmmm, that'll be nice," considers Gell. "Yeah, fingers crossed," trails Mudge. "And Bronny's researching Freud at the moment," she furthers, adding extra credibility.
"The thing is that all three of us write songs so that's been most therapeutic," picks up Gell, "and as many songwriters would attest most songs are drawn from personal experience. For some reason, I don't know, my personal experiences are full of angst so I find the best way for me is to write things all down and get as angsty as I like. With a lot of my songs you could even read underlying messages of sexual frustration," she avers, "which is what Freud was all about. Everything was tied in with sexual repression and frustration. And then there's a few more topics that we've come up with, and my ex-husband has been doing a lot of our Googling for research."
"So we're really enjoying having an angle to work with, though we're still accidentally on purpose managing to make it all about us," admits Mudge. "We're not afraid to share each others deep and darkest secrets, that's for sure."
So mosey on down and catch the band once described as, "The Andrew Sisters gone country."
Steve Jones
 | The Dolls play 'In Freudian Slips' at Queens Arms Hotel (Wright St, city) from Mon 27 Feb as part of the Fringe. |
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