The
Comedy Festival Greatest Hits rolls on, and for part two of Wednesday night’s
entertainment, we went to see Tessa Waters Over Promises. Last year, we saw Tessa
on a windswept, rainy night at the Fringe Bar, in the company of maybe a dozen
other people. Tonight, however, she was at the Propeller Stage in the BATS Theatre, and it was fully booked.
One of the
features of Tessa’s shows is audience participation. To prepare ourselves
fully, we selected seats in mid-row, where we were unlikely to be called out
and onto the stage. Sure enough, she restricted her victims to front- and
second-row audience members, and those on the ends of the rows. Phew! No need
to get up and waltz this time!
Her show
followed a similar format to last time, but with new moves: a mix of comedy, dance,
exercise, and mime. She got an audience member to mime throwing her some mime hula
hoops, then mimed hula hooping. This is actually funnier than it sounds. In
fact, the whole show had us in stitches. At the end, she got everyone to shout
out body parts for her to do a dance with, then put the whole thing together
into one ensemble dance…then got everyone to stand up and do the dance with
her. There’s just no getting away from that audience participation.
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