Jeromaia Detto hits the Marx at the beginning of his nutty one man show, WHEN I GROW UP.
Sporting Groucho glasses and nose and making weird noises and exclamations, Detto ensconces himself in the audience as a faux punter, leading audience members to fill a container with pieces of paper declaring and sharing in secret what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Ditching the disguise, Detto then picks these offerings, one by one, and embarks on a barking mad interpretation of those vocations.
Whimsy runs wild, silliness soars, playfulness peaks, chicks and ducks and geese better scurry, as we watch this Fringe show open the shutters on the absurd as Detto careers through careers in colliding kaleidoscopes in a flurry with a fringe over the top.
WHEN I GROW UP is a hell for leather performance that encourages audience participation and diverse interpretation. Does a person’s desire to become a skipper mean that they want to jump rope or command a vessel? Do you know the difference between a breast-fast and your breakfast? Or an abseil from a main sail? It’s anchors away – or is that aweigh – in anarchy, anachronism and cross dressing kept women, plus seamen for a mermaid.
WHEN I GROW UP may not be the slickest gig you ever see, but it is infectiously funny, a stitch in a line plus mime, or the gleeful, ungraceful costume change and beaming smile of the performer makes the resistance of laughter futile.
It will be sad day when Detto grows up, so make a B line to the mirth maker and see WHEN I GROW UP before he does.
When/Where:
Till 13th September
7:30 PM
The Emerging Artist Sharehouse – Boom Boom Room
Erskineville Town Hall
104 Erskineville Rd, Erskineville NSW 2043, Australia
