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Kransky Sisters Heard It On The Wireless Union Hall Until Sun 5 March Due to their highly individual performances on SBS's 'In Siberia Tonight' and tours of the country in their '58 Morris Major, these dour maidens are fast becoming comedic icons to stand alongside Dame Edna herself. Dressed in Simplicity or Butterick pattern rejects, the Kransky sisters - Mourne, Eve and Arva - bring a uniquely deadpan and Gothic approach to an eclectically inventive arrangement of pop songs and deliver highly amusing anecdotes from their lives. The new show brings together a varied musical programme of unique tracks by artists such as Pink, Talking Heads and AC/DC with tales of spinsterhood turned sour. And whilst there is much to laugh about, it's clear that talented musicians hide behind and inform the show with its eccentric range of musical instruments including the underpinning virtuosic tuba playing of youngest sister, Arva against the more homespun instrumentation of her self-taught sisters. Inventive harmonies and percussion (courtesy of the kitchen) lift this show above the merely comic in such familiar songs as Pop Music, Steppenwolf's bikie anthem Born To Be Wild and such Oz classics as the Skyhooks' Horror Movie and Russell Morris' psychedelic classic, The Real Thing - now turned into something much more disconcertingly Gothic. Ingenious references to the more laidback approach to life from a bygone era litter the show including Arnott's Orange Slice biscuits; abattoir workers and an early recognition of difference stamp these excellent performers as uniquely Australian and fully formed identities. The youngest, rebellious sister Arva, obviously owes much to the silent yet impish Harpo Marx, whilst eldest sister Mourne is the suitably bitter and twisted spinster - and Eve (mistress of the musical saw) is cast as the repressed sex-kitten firmly cast under her sister's thumb. Particular highlights included a dour take on the hippy anthem Aquarius, audience participation in the cheesy instrumental Popcorn and David Byrne's demented Psycho Killer.  |
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