Now a regular at the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival, Nina Conti expands on her previous concept of
fitting a ventriloquist dummy face-mask to an audience member into a full show
involving half a dozen audience members.
The routines involving audience members
were wickedly funny. Not only does Conti demonstrate her wonderful abilities as
a ventriloquist, but an enviable skills as an improviser.
Despite having some audience participants
that were no where near as funny, talented or clever as her, Conti masterfully
wrangles them to create a truly uniquely entertaining show.
Her set pieces with “Monkey” draw on some
standard ventriloquist dummy tropes but to which Conti brings new twists,
surprises and laughs. The hypnosis piece was genius.
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