BIOGRAPHIES OF A BLUE MONKEY

Well-performed and directed light entertainment at Musho Festival. (Review by Maurice Kort)

Written and directed by Jean van Elden, Biographies Of A Blue Monkey is featured in this year’s Musho Festival.

June Richards (Janna Ramos Violante) is an artist who has been commissioned to produce a painting of a monkey, although her preferred medium is sculpture. But a customer is a customer. After finding something for her breakfast, not an easy task in the artistic mess of her home, and changing from her dressing gown into her working clothes, she gets down to the painting.

This is not easy as she is procrastination personified as she reminisces of her early painting efforts and experiences at five years old and her views on this and that, including the television programme Fear Factor, her father, babies… Everything keeps distracting her from her task at hand. This results in a very amusing production.

With the working telephone being on stage, and often used, the cues were all spot on, as were the musical interludes. The result was well-performed and directed light entertainment.

The two performances of Biographies of a Blue Monkey are at the Bat Hall Theatre on January 17 at 20h00 and January 18 at 14h00