Moist | Adelaide Fringe 2022 review

As a title for this engaging, very silly romp, camper than row of pink frilly tents, it barely covers it. Dripping wet, this cast is, and the audience gets soaked a bit as well.

Adelaide Fringe 2022. Moist. Picture: supplied by Adelaide Fringe

Moist

Theatre and Physical Theatre

Rating: ****

Large Hall at Latvian Hall

Until March 20

Moist Is a divisive word. You like or you don’t. I like it. As a title for this engaging, very silly romp, camper than row of pink frilly tents, it barely covers it. Dripping wet, this cast is, and the audience gets soaked a bit as well.

It’s very much an hysterically funny response to the impeccably-toned and agile bodies getting physical elsewhere in the Fringe

Peter, Reece, Caesar and Christopher, four gay men, two bears, a twink and possibly a seal, there’s a taxonomy issue, armed with bubble cannons, spray guns and water bottles engage in a deliciously naughty hour of innuendo, completely lacking in any subtlety.

In your face, oh yes. The physical stuff, the clambering over each others bodies, is much as you’d expect.

The fluorescent rings number is impressive, and one sensual vision of almost naked bodies, dimly lit and wet is actually beautiful.

Costumes? Nothing much to speak of. Props very sparkly.

Soundtrack, very disco heavy.