Adelaide Fringe 2011

Snout

Box City Theatre

Genre: Community Theatre

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Festival: Adelaide Fringe

Low Down

Review

Snout is the latest installment from local Adelaide group Box City Theatre and tells the tale of life for three laboratory bound blue pigs who receive an unsuspecting visitor; a pink pig. The three against one show explores the immediate thought of pigs…LUNCH and the eventual death that awaits them.

What worked were the quick fire dialogues, comic timing and physicality. It was evident that these elements were well rehearsed and allowed for much hilarity from the audience. Another highlight were the striking costumes of both cast and crew that gave the impression of a lab-like environment. It would have been great if the audience were given jumpsuits, hairnets or masks to wear and if the seating matched the situation.

Snout opens with much promise by tackling hot topic issues from exploring all the food that contains pork to the treatment of laboratory kept animals, but fails to conclude with any logic or thought. About halfway through is where the confusion sets in and a pig who was shot and pulled through a feed tube later returns alive and with a half amputated leg?  It was quite a strange ending.

Overall, Snout deserves credit for going out on a limb and tackling an issue often argued, but not resolved. The trio work well together and with more time and less male genital references, Snout could be an educational show for secondary schools. There are definitely some worthy subject matters in need of awareness and debate and Snout is one of them!

Published March 1, 2011 by Corinna Di Niro