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Sick Puppies
19th August 2008
By Adam Rafferty - TP Editor
The Act-O-Matic 3000 are at it again, with another addition to their
repertoire of blacker than black plays designed to make you squirm
with delight in your seat.
This time to ensure you’re going to get the best bong for your
deutsche mark they’ve turned to German playwright David Gieselmann’s
crazy and blood-drenched Mr Kolpert. Translated by David
Tushingham (and first performed at
London’s
Royal Court Theatre) this story opens with a couple, a trunk and an
impending dinner party.
Bored hosts Ralf Droht and Sarah Kenner decide to amuse themselves
by pretending to their friends and fellow co-workers, Edith and
Bastian, that the trunk contains the dead body of one of their work
colleagues. But
is Mr Kolpert
really inside the chest on the lounge room floor? Is this a sick
joke or an even sicker double bluff? Where is that knocking coming
from? And why is it so hard to get the right pizzas delivered?
Borrowing from
a wide range of cultural references Mr Kolpert
satirises the appetite for violence that fuels a lot of today’s
modern cinema, while at the same time curiously living up to that
standard and blurring the line between good and evil to create an
evening of murderous hilarity.
As Melbourne’s hardest working actor’s company, the Act-O-Matic
supply their always-entertaining regulars Cathy Kohlen (as Sarah),
David Gardette and Dan Walls to the cast along with newcomers Noni
Dunstone and Troy Larkin (as Ralf).
 Working
with the company for the first time, director Matt Scholten is a
member of the VCA faculty and recently successfully directed The
Crucible for Eagle’s Nest Theatre.
So if you think you’re a bit of a sick puppy, time to test your
mettle and see how you react to the chaos theory of Mr Kolpert. But
be warned, this one ain’t for the faint hearted – and I don’t just
mean that there’ll be lashings of Heinz Ketchup flying about…..
there’s rude words and nudie bits too!!!
Don’t miss this thoroughly chaotic and mercilessly entertaining
night out at South Yarra’s cosy Cromwell Road Theatre. The strictly
limited season opens this Thursday 21 August through Saturday and
then runs Tuesdays through Saturdays until September 6 at 8pm.
Bookings can be made online at
www.actomatic3000.com
Bargain hunters are advised to attend the $15 preview this Wednesday
20 August – or just turn up to one of the Tuesday sessions for the
same price! It costs at least twice that much to see live pink bits
at an ‘after-hours’ club in town… so do yourself a favour. You sick,
sick puppies!!
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