Friday, 16 November 2012

REVIEW: Shiny Shiny Productions' "Our Regional Centre"


In a Word: Femme-tastic!

The first thing I did after seeing Shiny Shiny Productions’ “Our Regional Centre” at the Feast Festival hub was downloading unreleased P!nk track ‘The King is Dead but the Queen is Alive’, swiftly followed by elongated mourning over the lack of strutting power my converses have compared to the platform heels on show.

All the way from hot, moist, open minded and mouthed Lismore, the Shiny Shiny troupe have brought something truly unique to Feast this year, and chances to see it are running out so forgive me a little brevity in attempt to get this out there as soon as can. I will admit some misgivings in the opening moments, but this diamond in the rough truly captured my heart and made me wish I had some breasts to throw around. This was female power at its absolute finest and filthiest: a multimedia, cross-creative country community service announcement introducing us to a rural spot I know I’m seriously considering going to post-show!

Now don’t assume that the quaintness of the show makes it any less fiery and clever: if it wasn’t the samples of the most spectacular spoken-word I’ve heard, it was the laugh out loud pagan nature worship methods, or the tricky titty lyrics by Shiny Shiny themselves (a musical moment only surpassed by getting to chant ‘clit-licking cowgirl all over me’ at the top of my sequin-soaked lungs). A show so empowering, you’ll ask Tom Jones for your bras back so you can chuck them at these bawdy and beautiful broads baring it all. Walking out, I had a good hard think about whether we city-dwellers are in any way accurate about the comparison between our bustling contemporary strips and the communal country districts for creative expression. Only one way to find out: got to go down, down, down, down to Pussy Town!

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