Review – Fät Wânk

QUITE often Art is a load of wank and this show’s purpose is to point that out.

While to some in the audience it may seem that the show itself is wanky, those audience members are clearly missing the point and should go watch something simpler, like standup comedy. Fät Wânk, with all its umlauts and accents, is primarily a show about how much superfluos rubbish passes for art these days.

Marcel Blanch-de Wilt, is the creator or the show and also plays the protagonist. Much like his other shows, this play is also achingly hilarious.

Marcel has a real knack for workshopped comedies. His penchant for crude, in your face humour often leads to creating theatre that exhaustingly funny.
Upcoming local talent Natalia Sledz has excellent comedic timing and is superbly supported by Craig McArdle (who quite often shows far too much skin).

There weren’t many people in the audience who didn’t find the show laugh-out-loud funny.

My favourite part of the play was the hilarious (and uncomfortably long) scene about a drug induced euphoria. It’s always fun to watch the expression on the audience’s faces as it turns from ‘enjoying a joke’ to ‘wow, this is weird’.

Heckler recommends this show if you can handle absurdist theatre. It’s an excellent local production and it’s shows like this one that have saved the Fringe from turning into just a comedy festival.

Go see it.