Review | Amanda Lancaster
“If you don’t love yourself no one else will love you, you don’t even deserve love, because you’re such a shit”
This is the Affirmation, the mantra if you will, that greets the audience as they take their seats for this evening; in hindsight this the promotional postcard, with its rolling picturesque scenery of snow sprinkled so close its almost touchable, mountain apex scrawled with the hopelessly hopeful assertion of not so positive positivity should have given viewers a much more tenuous idea of the shows thematic thrust.
Salty, greasy, sweet, sticky and hazelnut spread kitsch madness ensues from the get go in this observational comedy about the reality versus fantasy ideologies behind our very basest human natures. Our want to be wanted our need to be needed and the terribly destructive forces we each impose upon not only on each other but ourselves in our bid to find the attention approval, adoration and acceptance we all so desperately crave.
Meet two best friends, or second best friends depending on the issue at present hand, who just like most heartbroken singles and self proclaimed unlovables use various vices and in this case foods to compensate for their despair and loneliness.
Frederick’s camp cuteness and seemingly carefree nature are shadowed by a constant need for attention and compliments via random strangers and places all of which hold no place in reality but the consequences of which very much do.
Then there’s Aggy, seeking love in everyone else and the fantasy she creates in her mind about the people she finds herself trying to please in the real world, constantly transforming and losing herself simultaneously to the search to find someone else instead of perhaps finding herself.
Boys taste better with Nutella sees Aggy and Frederick in what can be best described as… yeah it really can’t really be described as anything other than a complete and utter love letter to disaster, self loathing, depression and comfort food. With a weirdly optimistic and odd look at dating, depression and social media bullying combined with an adorably likeable duo of talent, Nutella may not make the bitterness of relationships with boys or girls taste better but it certainly is hazelnutty covered fun.
WHEN: 1 – 3 February 2019 | 7:00pm
WHERE: Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den | The Brisbane Hotel | HIGHGATE
INFO: Tickets $29 | Duration 55 mins | Suitable 18+ | THEATRE/COMEDY
LINK: https://fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/boys-taste-better-with-nutella-fw2019
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