More reviews from the Fringe festival Victoria News, Page B3, Reviews by Jeanine Soodeen and Michelle Martin Five Stars (out of five) |
Picture a South Park episode, only with adult actors, singing and dancing and eventually eating one another. That's a taste of what South Park co-creator Trey Parker serves in Cannibal: The Musical! A live version of a 1993 movie Parker created in film school, Cannibal: The Musical! is loosely based on the story of Alferd Packer, who led a group of miners to their demise in Colorado and was later convicted of cannibalism. The show is even more loosely based on The Odyssey, although Cyclops is a Confederate soldier and the Sirens are a tribe of French-speaking, dildo-wielding lesbian Indians. The Victoria cast handled the manic script with skill and fine comic timing. The singing wasn't half-bad either. The audience in the packed house seldom stopped laughing, even when sprayed with water, pelted with fake flesh or confronted with full-frontal male nudity. Really, only one word can describe the experience: Shpadoinkle. |
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