The New Black
From: Wednesday, 6th May 2009
To: Saturday, 23 May 2009
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Synopsis
Mills’ signature meltdown cabaret mixes biting wit and acerbic insight in an evening of original songs and deliciously edgy reinventions. An acid-tongued and hysterical rant with the occasional apocalyptic vision and a gospel melody.
Our Review:
8 May 2009
Audiences for David Mills’ new cabaret show The New Black are offered a free cocktail with every ticket purchased. Is this to warm them up? Or a reward for making the effort to get down to Kennington? Who knows. Suffice to say the cocktail’s name is “bloody sour” so no-one can say they weren’t warned.
Mills opens with the assurance that, although it is easy to be a bitch, he is here to “give something back”, and he has a list of good causes. There follows a promising send up of gay and lesbian groups ending with a plea for our support for FAF - the Feline Aids Foundation - whose kittens in particular need our help. Sadly this is about as funny as it gets. Mills moves on, throwing in some songs along the way, to give us his thoughts on Islam, Christianity, drag queens and mothers but fails to say anything either amusing or insightful about any of them. At one point he breaks off and turns to the audience with a tone of desperation “What fun we’re having” he says. It...
Cast
David Mills
Michael Roulston (piano)
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