Call Girls
As the lyrics of the classic ABBA song played”Ring, ring, why don’t you give me a call”we were officially introduced to the ‘call girls’, known to their family and friends as Janelle and Vanessa. We were thrust into a world where the topic of gossip was the last male we wished to have a sexual rendezvous with.
Not only were we entertained with the unorthodox topics that are on every female’s mind, but with all the things that we wish to say about those fondly-thought-of calls from the ABC telemarketing company who wish to know just how your husband came to his untimely death within 24 hours of its occurrence.
Their short but sweet theatrical performance, definitely for the ladies, hones in on all the things that we are thinking, but would never dare to say. It takes phrases like ‘Oh Mah Gawd!’ and ‘Seriously babe, he’s so not good enough for you’ to new, hilarious levels. And what would it be without that hysterical, typically ‘clueless’, totally exaggerated tone?
So always remember that no matter how rich, good looking or fantastically wonderful you think a guy is, ‘Darling! You can just do soooooooo much better!’ For all ladies out there: if crash diets, long gossip sessions, ‘hot or not’ males of the moment and all those hilariously embarrassing moments only worthy of your very close female friends take your fancy, this could be the show for you.
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Call Girls – 30/04/06 @ Melbourne Town Hall – by epod
Janelle Koenig & Vanessa Bennett star in this (supposedly) comic play, “Call Girls”.
Spending a lot of my life working in call centres, I arrived at this show with high expectations, thinking how interesting, amusing and funny this show would be. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed.
This show is about the life of the two girls in a call centre. The set of this show is a table, with the two actresses sitting side by side for most of the show in their call centre cubicles.
Whilst the show is well acted by Janelle and Vanessa, there wasn’t enough humour or interesting content within it to keep my attention. There were a few funny moments, but they were few and far between.
The highlight of this show for me – other than when it ended – was when the girls played “race around the world”. This is when they made their telemarketing calls in whatever language their collegue requested them to.
The pretence for this show was very interesting, but it just failed to deliver. However, I believe that with the strong performances of each of the stars of this show, that if this play was given a re-working under some different direction, it could be a hit. For the moment though, I would not recommend it.
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