THEATRE REVIEW: Tease! is much more than a piece of comedic fluff By Lesley Stones
Decades after women got the vote, burned their bras for liberty and greeted contraceptives with delight, women’s bodies still remain a battleground.
It might seem odd that a play set in a hair salon can spark such deep thoughts, and you could dismissas light and comedic piece of fluff. But that would be to waste the considerable work poured into the script and the acting by Tumi Morake and Vanessa Frost.didn’t seem that important when it first appeared three years ago. But since then perhaps the world has gone backwards.
Frost and Morake co-wrote the script with Jose Domingos, who also directs the show, and it’s a very female-friendly version of sexual exploration. It’s going to attract a predominantly female audience, but men won’t feel out of place or embarrassed by the content, unless the size of the implements makes them squirm.One funny early scene has the pair getting blotto in a pub and fending off lame chat-up lines from barflies, while the audience groans and laughs at the come-ons.
It still takes a little while to warm up, and the rhyming couplets that the bulk of the words arrive in can feel unnecessary. But the actors have settled into their roles with confidence that’s infectious. Their facial expressions are delightful and some of the lines are subtle gems of laughter.
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