…Some Other Day
…Some Other Day
By Shave and Reilly
Pink Venue, 2010 Orlando International Fringe Festival
I think there’s a deep, deep meaning to this mime act, but a frenzied, fist pounding discussion in the beer tent left me just as confused. OK, we didn’t really pound our fists on those flimsy plastic tables, but there was a brief “WTF? / Beats me” on the walk over. Shave and Reilly call their stuff “Baggy Pants Comedy”, and it flows directly from the silent films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They ARE entertaining to watch, and their skilled acrobatics and floppy bodies do some amazing thing. The consensus opinion was the pair were acting out a series of deaths and rebirths, tied together by umbrellas and scarves. At first they are picking themselves up by the scruffs of the own necks, later they writhe around in what might be highly stylized sexual activity, and eventual they try, unsuccessfully to dismantle a bomb that look like it came from a 1970’s made for TV thriller. But I’m just pulling all that out the air, go check them out and let me know if you conclude differently. Take your kids; they’ll love it as much as you will.
This event is part of the 2010 Orlando International Fringe Festival. For schedule and ticket information, please visit http://OrlandoFringe.org
