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Creativity starves insanity
Sun on the late afternoon low balls a pocket to the title screen, where it's been a long while since. Tom Gleisner confronts the issue of having the hot looking set on either side of his judging table. Promises of hideous freaks for next week most likely only a joke where there may or may not be listeners breaking at the chance to score a fright.
Feeling for The Other Side, Akmal Saleh slips on the guru silks and barely talks in the way of communication. Hammering the piece are the cast players, offering too much for Saleh to not actually bounce back off. Senses are waning and it starts early with a touch of running into a doze.
Lab coats standing around big prop drug bottles offer Hamish Blake the chance to let rip. It's a slogan or two here and there and the test is wearing the skin a little thin. Marketing is key in such a presentation, but knowing not of how far things can go limits the chances of broken ribs.
Anthony Field sashays in as a martial arts sensei where there is no cause for respect. Much like a man with no tongue, Field is lost within the dojo slack jawed at the explanations. Either or for the night, Field works in The Wiggles with a skivvy and those fingers. Cheap and easy laughs, and it's clear away time at the table.
There's no play with Kate Jenkinson standing well outside the time period as befits the clothes and huge hoop gown. Time jamming goes awry but fights a mighty flash of the woman's knee to shatter the sensibilities of the time period. Whichever one that happens to be.
Between the stages, the four tackle a lighthouse tour and commentating the diving. Former funnier than the latter, there's a cause for concern as the interactions turn perfunctory and disinterested. "Listen with your eyes," says Fields as both his parting advice for diving and then later in the night in front of the costumed black belts.
For the all-in, it's Blake who takes charge and runs the field ascreamin' and ashoutin' from the swivel of his chair alongside The Blue One. Saleh sneaks a quip on the behaviour of a rugby player but then that's about it. Flat and fetching stale air, there's not much to watch outside the stacks-on as played out by the donuts left on the studio desk with Blake behind the rings. For what it's worth, the Wiggle takes the crown.
Soon Van - Wednesday, 4 October 2006 - 21:45
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