Dee Mardi gives us a cabaret of life, with the twist that everything is related in some way to laundry pegged on the line. As each item of clothing is removed from the rotary line she flits between theatrical monologues and cabaret songs. It tries to provide an hour of contentment for us all, to give us a fresh and enlightened way of looking at the world in a light hearted display of entertainment using her different abilities.Though each line is delivered with the endearing smile of a woman who wants us to enjoy her musings on life, they remain as unimpressive as watching the cotton wash. Pride oozes from this ladys original work as each monologue and song is delivered with the confident belief that it is an astounding revelation that has been wittily coupled to a strong metaphor. This is the element that makes the show embarrassing as we see an unappreciated housewife who wants more than her lot. While doing the washing one dull day shes looked at the laundry and become convinced that what she is doing is hugely fulfilling. Buoyed up by the revelation that there might be some intrinsic philosophical value to the middle class existence she didnt stop thinking and now we have this. The thoughts are not special, funny or entertaining, there is simply nothing to them. Every person encounters the little pithy ideas that pop into our heads when weve got nothing else to think about, but we also know they are too rubbish to be forced on other people. Her abilities are not fit for a multi talented solo performance cabaret, with a weak and croaky voice that made me cringe at any loud or high notes. The keyboard player looked on as he must do every single day with the thousand yard stare of a prisoner of war. She broke down the fourth wall by dragging a couple onto the stage and plonking them into a washing basket to tell us about the female G-spot. Her resulting message was that the G-spot should be under the man for a stable relationship, proving the messages were not even well thought through as well as being shallow. This womans confidence does not change the strength of the show in which the strongest feeling to rise out of the boredom was pity.
