10 Quick Qs – Bernie & Victy
1. What, where, when and how much?
EASTEND CABARET: SEXUAL TENSION
2 – 15 March
9.45pm
Tickets: $32 | Conc & Group $28 | Tue & Preview 2 Mar $25
Garden of Unearthly Delights (in The Deluxe)
2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less:
The cult musical comedy duo and Adelaide Fringe favourites are back! Dark, hilarious and dangerously inappropriate, this show is unmissable!
3. A quote/moment that stands out from your show?
BB (Bernadette Byrne): Our deliciously naughty songs. Adelaide loves a little bit of filth, and we love to give it to them!
VV (Victor Victoria): Oh yes. Four years ago we sang about the fine art of dangerwanking, which won us the Best Cabaret Award. Since then, Adelaide has had a warm, moist place in our… hearts.
4. Is heckling allowed?
BB: Of course, darling! Love to get up-close-and-personal with an audience.
VV: But be careful – past hecklers have been known to regret drawing attention to themselves. And if you don’t like physical contact then try to stay very still, Bernie is attracted to sudden movement, like a raptor…
5. What is your role in the show?
VV: I play lots of instruments, like the accordion, the musical saw, the piano, and I sing a bit, and I’m also Bernie’s security manager, gin-stocker-upper-er, and…
BB: To see EastEnd Cabaret is to have an experience that you will never forget: me. I am the star, darlings. Don’t forget it.
6. What do you want to be when you grow up?
BB: Oh, darlings. Why would we want to do anything but tour the world and sing dirty songs for a living?
VV: Although one day we would like to create our own club – a secret dive somewhere, maybe back home in London, maybe even in Australia or New York or Berlin, somewhere that we can give a home to lots of wonderful fringe artists – and then we don’t need to ever grow up!
7. If you could put on (or be in) any show/band in the world, which one would it be?
BB: I would love to have my own strange and wonderful variety show, full of my favourite fringe performers.
VV: And a live band! I could finally be a band leader!
BB: I would host. There would be a lot of gin and a feeling of unpredictable chaos.
VV: Probably because of the amount of gin consumed.
8. Why would someone not come see your show?
BB: Perhaps if they were very, very conservative…
VV: Although we’ve played to such a wide range of people, including a table of nuns and a bishop (seriously!), and once people give themselves over, everybody has a good time. PS. the nuns had an absolute ball!
9. In your opinion, what is the worst show/movie you’ve ever seen and why?
BB: I once saw a show on the Free Fringe in Edinburgh that was absolutely terrifying – the “star” of whom should not be named. A feature of the Free Fringe is that performers ask punters for donations to the ‘hat’ at the end if they’ve enjoyed the show, instead of charging for tickets. This particular man aggressively shouted at the 8 people who made up the audience, sneering and threatening those who didn’t donate. Hideous behaviour. I had half a mind to send Victy over with her musical saw to do some threatening of our own…
10. Besides your show, what’s your pick for the Fringe/Garden?
BB: There are so many! We have a wonderful cabaret family in our tent in the Garden – Le Gateau Chocolat, Michael Griffiths and Yana Alana, all absolutely wonderful.
VV: Then there is our fringe friends, who you can see in the Garden and in the wider Fringe – the Briefs boys, Miss Behave’s Gameshow, WOMANz, Trygve in the Kraken, Ro Hutson’s beautiful 4-Eyed Guide to the Galaxy… go and see them all, Fringe friends!”
