Part musical theatre, part stand up, part real life story telling, Matt Storer’s comedy drama takes the audience through a journey of hilarious cult worship.
The premise is set at the beginning when Storer who plays the character of father Hooroo tells a tale about a whispering magpie and the end of the world.
He then channels a famous Western Australian newsreader and god using two halves of a melon. It’s probably the highlight of the show as he basically roasts said newsreader using some sharp voice-over repartee.
Now if this sounds completely ridiculous it is meant to. Paradoxically, it makes pitch perfect sense as the stage drama unfolds in the ensuing hour.
There are comic genius moments where the entire room at the Girls School Library is in fits of laughter. Unlike a lot of other comedians, Storer has got the entire audience to laugh in unison.
The laughter belies the undercurrent message. Clearly Storer has had some real life experience in a religious group or a cult in has past.
He makes the claim “afterall I’m only a man” throughout his show. The point being how can one man seduce a normal free thinking audience into drinking red cordial- a reference to the Jim Jones massacre in Guyana in the seventies; therefore what chance has actual members got within a cult?
It’s actually a stunning piece of comedy and theatre rolled up into a very neat, tight set of jokes, with some very funny audience participation behind a sinister plot.