By Chantel Dyball
COMEDY

Stepping into the DeLuxe venue, the size being reminiscent of an actual office cubicle, one enters the amusing life of two call girls. Andrea Gibbs, a Perth comedy extraordinaire, and Janelle Koenig, another local talent, acting as Jacquie and Nat, offered a flipside to those so-often-so-very-terribly-irritating-bloody-survey-calls.

The ladies presented an almost typical tale of workplace harassment, distasteful calls to the geriatric set and the hopeless/fullness of modern dating. Gibbs and Koenig chattily jokes that dating these days is all about “tolerance”, because if, “He looked alright in his Tinder pic”, then why not?

Both call girls gossip about possessing, “Enough baggage for an Antarctic expedition”, whilst alternating between phone call mischief and absolute apathy for their survey duties. The highlight of this misconduct was an array of faux accents, most notably Gibbs’ Scottish crack.

The audience reflected recipients of such survey calls, attested by the raucous laughter delivered even before the punch line hit. Gibbs and Koenig were perhaps limited by the suffocating proximity of ‘stage’ to the front row, as jokes were often announced to each other rather than the viewing audience.

Overall, the local ladies presented a playful and merry world of two call girls, where the biggest dilemma of the day is the shade of one’s shellac. “Breathless kiss” or “broken promise” for Valentines Day, anyone?

Call Girls ends this Sunday.