Truth

Truth played to sold-out audiences at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival earlier this year before touring to the Edinburgh Fringe. Slow-Clap Productions have brought it back home to Melbourne for a short one-week season. It's a show that has really found its feet over several seasons. In Truth, co-devised with producer Stephanie Brotchie, Vachel Spirason tells the convoluted story of how he came to be in possession of a strangely powerful plasma globe and his ensuing addiction to its pinky purple strands of light. But this is only the loose frame for a joyfully absurd comedy show that moves between simple story telling, sketch comedy, stand-up and utterly hilarious dance routines. Spirason plays all the characters he meets along the way: Juan the Spanish Ballet dancer, an Eastern European Chess champion who takes the audience through his 'Chessercise' routine, a friendless cripple, a sex manic Salt-N-Pepa back up dancer, just to name a few. Spirason is a real comic talent. He's a wonderful physical comedian who handles the audience with endearing ease.  Slow Clap's The Hermitude Of Angus Ecstatic won best comedy in the Melbourne Fringe 2010. This is another work of outstanding physical comedy.

Running at The Lithuanian Club Ballroom until Friday 5 October