Screw You Revue
Gold venue, find showtimes
Lady Winnifred and Didi Panache are back at it again in the Gold venue. By back at it, I mean just as politically incorrect, vulgar, and uninhibited as I imagine they always are. I was a Screw You Revue virgin, as the two hosts call it, until this show. If you’re a Screw You virgin or a veteran Screw-er, go see the latest installment of this show.
The show is at least half improv, with Didi Panache (Douglas McGeoch) and Lady Winnifred (Dewey Chaffee) toying with audience members for a large portion of it. Both are obviously accomplished performers and have no reservations with their act.
Didi Panache often ends up playing the straight man (in drag) to Winnifred’s outrageous and often-racially insensitive comments, and it works. The two have been together so long that they know when to let their partner have the spotlight.
The few songs that they sang were impressive, and the short guessing-game bit near the end of the show was the perfect length to keep the audience from getting bored, and was damn funny.
I would say if you are uncomfortable with audience interaction and potentially being ridiculed, you may want to avoid the Screw You Revue – but truthfully we all need to be humbled sometimes, and if it is by two beautifully made-up men in the crudest way possible, all the better.
Read all of Watermark’s coverage of the 2016 Orlando Fringe Theatre festival here.
