Bev Killick Performs Killick Bev At Gluttony’s The Piglet – Adelaide Fringe Review

Gluttony’s The Piglet, Thu Mar 5 This is first time this Fringe I’ve heard an audience properly guffaw with laughter, helpless, breathless and chattering about the show on the way out: ‘She’s good’ ‘She’s really good’ That’s the audience review, and they loved Killick to bits. She’s a Bogan Bette Midler; loud, rude, with a belting singing voice and scant regard for giving a fuck. The comedy was located firmly below the waist, full of wee, bums, periods, farts, flaps, drip trays and incontinence. She staggered about the stage, legs akimbo like she’d just serviced a roomful of sailors and was coming back for more. I may not particularly have relished what she was saying, but the sheer energy, life force and determination to have fun was impressive, and her audience adored every salty moment and got involved. Obviously, her trademark is graphic. She roared her way through anecdotes pouring scorn on healthy eating, fit yummy mummies and their mimsy approach to childcare, all in the spirit of ‘if you can’t join them, beat them’ and heaped scorn on the frankly soft targets of shop assistants (too polite) and bush-pig women (too ugly). She’s like Mr Punch made human; everybody gets bashed. But she is unforgiving of herself, pretending to be a bad, alcohol-marinaded mum permanently on the verge of some undignified, vulgar display. A one-woman history of comedy entertainment, Killick gurns and squints and swoops like Frankie Howerd (Carry On…), a physical clown , an impressionist, a singer and about as far away from political correctness as you can get. If exuberantly raucous is your thing, you’re home. Julia Chamberlain Bev Killick performs Killick Bev at Gluttony’s The Pigtlet from 10.10pm until Sun Mar 15. Book at FringeTIX on 1300 621 255 or adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix. Click HERE to purchase your tickets.