{"id":802,"date":"2017-05-06T07:27:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/2017\/05\/06\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsthe-beast-comedy-theatre-theatre-review\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:27:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:44","slug":"httptheblurb-com-aureviewsthe-beast-comedy-theatre-theatre-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewsthe-beast-comedy-theatre-theatre-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beast (Comedy Theatre) – theatre review"},"content":{"rendered":"

A modern day satire, which tears our notions of morality to shreds, The Beast<\/em> is an at-times-hilarious rant on urban culture, an organic lifestyle and infidelity. Written by Eddie Perfect and featuring him and six other actors \u2013 Heidi Arena, Peter Houghton, Alison Bell, Rohan Nichol, Toby Truslove and Christie Whelan Browne \u2013 it was first staged by MTC in October 2013. Now it returns as an independent production directed by Simon Phillips at the Comedy Theatre.<\/p>\n

\"Beast-01\"The idea came from a real life dinner party when Perfect was living in the Yarra Valley in Victoria. He and his wife became friends with people who worked in the food and wine industry and a couple bought a cow and had it humanely slaughtered, employing a mobile butcher to do the work. The butcher fell on his knife and cut his hand open and had to be rushed off to receive medical attention. The people Perfect was with were joking about what would happen if the butcher didn\u2019t turn up to such an event and Perfect thought that was a great premise for a play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you had to slaughter a cow yourself and you botched it, it would ruin every part of the ethical reason why you started that journey in the first place,\u201d Perfect says. Perfect finds humans embarrassing at best and downright detestable at worst and he brings us to account in The Beast<\/i>. \u201cThe middle class can adopt these specific causes because they are on trend, in fashion and they make you look good and they are more into the idea of looking good than actually being good.\u201d He wanted the play to be quite brutal and that it is, but also very, very funny.<\/p>\n

Three men \u2013 mates \u2013 are marooned at sea without food or drink after a novice skipper \u2013 strongly opinionated and now deeply delusional \u2013 took them on the fishing trip without checking the weather forecast, which was appalling. Desperate and hungry, it appears they will all die, but miraculously they don\u2019t. Next thing you know and we cut to the trio\u2019s personal lives, as married couples and then \u201cenjoying\u201d each other\u2019s company. They have each made a tree change, moving away from suburbia. One has had a nervous breakdown, another has had an affair with a young African woman while on a business trip and a third is having trouble \u201cgetting it up\u201d and impregnating his wife after she lost a baby. They decide to share a meal together in which they eat a specially prepared, hand-reared, organic calf, only the butcher fails to show up and all hell breaks loose when they take matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n

\"Beast-02\"At times Perfect\u2019s black humour cuts to the quick. Importantly, he ignites passion in an audience. There were elements \u2013 particularly in the first act \u2013 that had me doubled over in laughter. He pushes the envelope and then some as audible gasps circle the theatre. Perfect has an ability to capture the absurdity and hypocrisy of man like very few other writers and he has brought this to bear in The Beast<\/i>. To say he deals here with flawed creatures is a gross understatement. The talented cast capture the nuances of their respective roles perfectly.<\/p>\n

We reached interval in double quick time, a sure sign I was thoroughly enjoying myself. Sure, it is over the top, at times very silly, but middle class consciousness is very much in the firing line and on that front Perfect doesn\u2019t miss a beat. The play runs for 2\u00bd hours including a 20-minute interval. The Beast<\/i>, which appears to live by the adage that nothing exceeds like excess, is playing at the Comedy Theatre<\/a> until 10th September. It stands out for all the right reasons, so I invite you to get lost in the melodrama.<\/p>\n

Alex First<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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