MacBob Productions bring back old favourites for Festival
show. (Review by Caroline Smart)
MacBob Productions – top Durban theatre favourites, Aaron McIlroy
and Lisa Bobbert – are appearing on the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown
with their show Marriage for Dummies.
Written and directed by Aaron, they describe the production as “a survival
guide for anyone brave enough to take on life’s ultimate challenge”.
Handling the process as a seminar on coping with marriage
and the do’s and don’ts, the inimitable pair rollick through songs and dialogue
keeping the audience highly amused throughout as is their wont.
The show brings back old favourites such as the dominating
Charmaine and her nerdy husband Bruce who are running the seminar. Well, that
is to say that Charmaine runs it and Bruce occasionally gets a word in
edgeways. Then there are the car guard couple Koos and Delphine and the ever
popular fast-talking know-it-all Vijay.
The seminar looks at things like Six Stages of Separation and points that are positive as well as
putting a new spin on Investments and
Returns. They change lyrics of popular songs to suit the subjects such as “That’s
Amore” to “That’s Annoying” – all ending up with the message that “Love is a doing
word.”
Expect full-on energy from start to finish from the
vivacious Lisa and the whacky Aaron. This is a highly talented pair who show no
signs of flagging after an impressive couple of decades appearing either individually
or as a duo.
There are two more performances: tomorrow (July 7) and July
8 at 14h00 at Kingswood Theatre in Grahamstown. – Caroline Smart
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