Reviewed by Barry Lenny, Sunday 12th June 2016
Rhonda Burchmore and Trevor Ashley - Twins, brings together two cabaret divas who, as the publicity tells us, are almost impossible to tell apart. You can ascertain the accuracy of that statement for yourself from the photograph. The resemblance is uncanny, if that is the correct word for it. Both are familiar faces to audiences at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and so the full house for this hilarious performance was entirely expected. Daytime television viewers who are fans of Ellen DeGeneres will, I am sure, be incensed but I, and the rest of the audience found Burchmore, a trained and highly skilled dancer, now wobbling around the stage with choreography by St. Vitus, absolutely hilarious. Ashley, of course, plays Ellen's partner Portia De Rossi. One of the sequences in this show, which was presented in the opening night Gala, saw Burchmore staggering around blindly in a wig, half black, half white with a fringe that hid her face, and a bow in her hair big enough to gift wrap a jumbo jet. This send up of Sia and her video clip of Chandelier featured Ashley as the interpretive dancer, Maddie Ziegler, with silver fringed wig and flesh toned leotard. Burchmore was already reducing the audience to a laughing mass, but adding his terpsichorean madness would have made a statue laugh.Videos