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Have you checked your spam folder not too long ago? It is perhaps value a bit look, simply in case you will have missed something. No, not the one a few lacking parcel or a Nigerian Prince, not the one about your webcam being hacked, the one beneath it, sure, that one proper there. That one isn’t spam, that’s actual. Yes, The United Nations have simply made you world chief, you need to in all probability learn that one. Congratulations, you – sure YOU, are actually in control of the world, world chief (faux)! Your phrase is regulation, what do you do now? Tax the wealthy,…
Rating
Good
A really humorous take a look at absolute energy all of a sudden given to the inexperienced and unprepared, it is a premise with a variety of potential.
Have you checked your spam folder not too long ago? It is perhaps value a bit look, simply in case you will have missed something. No, not the one a few lacking parcel or a Nigerian Prince, not the one about your webcam being hacked, the one beneath it, sure, that one proper there. That one isn’t spam, that’s actual. Yes, The United Nations have simply made you world chief, you need to in all probability learn that one.
Congratulations, you – sure YOU, are actually in control of the world, world chief (faux)! Your phrase is regulation, what do you do now? Tax the wealthy, nuclear disarmament, world peace? What’s subsequent? Will you profit from freedom and pleasure, will you sit at a desk and make struggle on your self?
Thick ‘n’ Fast’s General Secretary presents Cassie (Cassie Symes) and Georgie (Georgina Thomas), two younger inexperienced girls who’ve been chosen by the powers that be to rule the world. Symes and Thomas play a variety of characters; parodies of BBC newsreaders, the shadowy males who’re actually in cost (or no less than assume they’re in cost) of the world, in a collection of vignettes as they take energy and the ensuing reactions with a variety of screwball comedy. Taxing the wealthy is sweet and a right away suggestion… however dangle on… are they now wealthy? Hmm, possibly that one ought to return into the concepts pile.
General Secretary is fast-paced with quickfire jokes coming thick and quick, with a lot extra hidden away within the multimedia elements. The tone is ready as we enter to see a slide deck declaring it an ‘Assembly-Cum-Party’. It’s humorous in a manner how subjective comedy may be. Returning to 1 theme of Georgie mixing up horrible individuals from historical past and singing their praises is hilarious however returning to the identical gag in a excellent news piece on the finish of every information broadcast will get outdated moderately shortly.
Lots of the humour feels barely an excessive amount of low-hanging fruit. Yes there are a variety of laughs however a bit extra chew and satire could be appreciated. The present feels at its greatest when it grounds the premise a bit extra – pertaining to gender pay gaps, Just Stop Oil and taxing the wealthy, and within the prompt, however then unexplored, themes of energy resulting in corruption and bare self-interest.
The finale comes barely out of nowhere, however the General Secretaries‘ ridiculous solution for world peace is a real high note to end on. It is undeniably funny, filled with particularly sharp writing and rhyming lyrics. The audience certainly leave with smiles on their faces and I won’t have been the one one left pondering what I’d do if I dominated the world…
Written and produced by: Cassie Symes and Georgina Thomas
Created in affiliation with Applecart Arts
General Secretary performs as a part of VAULT Festival 2023 till 9 February.
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