Adelaide Fringe 2016

Mediawhore, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2016

0 Comments 19 February 2016

April Fools (Isabella Valette) is a stereotypical blonde actress who will stop at nothing to become a star! With a plastic surgery obsession and a promiscuous past, present, and future, April takes the advice of a former classmate and uses reality TV to make her break. She’s appeared in The Biggest Lesbian and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, where she claims she had to drink the sweat of an elephant just to survive. She is one of Australia’s golden girls, replacing Lara Bingle and following on from the irresistibility of blonde idols of the past.

A graduate of drama school, April finds that she is being discriminated against because of her ethnicity, singing a wonderful rendition of Kasey Chambers’ ‘Not Pretty Enough’ adapted to ‘Not Ethnic Enough’. After being rejected for being too white, she has another audition – this time, they ask about her sob-story. Not having a sob story, the producers say they aren’t interested. April loses her temper and tells them about her gay brother marrying a woman. Now having the sob story they need, the producers give April one chance to either walk away or use the story and become a star.

This non-linear approach to story-telling works well, flicking between past and present, introducing elements and pressures to this media star who must tweet every ten minutes or risk losing fans. She tweets everything from selfies to boob shots throughout the show, even asking the audience for their best ‘Japanese schoolgirl’ pose. Although the show was somewhat confusing and bordered on offensive, Isabella is undoubtedly talented in her adaptation of song lyrics – even singing a rendition of a Meatloaf song as ‘Paradise By The Stage Light’.

If you can name five Kardashians then this show is for you. If you’re a fan of reality TV, again, this show is for you. If you have an intense relationship with Twitter, aim to be a STAR, or just want some advice on whom in the industry you need to screw, then this show is definitely for you.

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At twenty, Kayla has had a short story published in an anthology as well as several book reviews published both online and in the local library's Zine. She regularly contributes to The Empire Times and The Speakeasy Zine and hopes to publish her novel some day.

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