Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano | Dexter at Underbelly Bistro Square (Ed Fringe)

Leaning fully into the ridiculous, Georgina Thomas’ debut solo hour is a fun and smart satire of ambition, opera and what happens when you let your internal monster loose. Set in the hours around an audition for a soprano role with a touring company, Georgina is forced to reckon with both her greatest rival and herself in a tightly directed hour of comedy, dramatics and snippets of powerfully sung opera. The show cleverly uses its opera-based slightly occult setting, squeezing the inherent ridiculousness out for all the laughs it can.

Georgina is captivating in the main role, whether she’s sneaking into the audience to throw fbt compliments at herself or using her vocal mastery to swap between the various characters singing at the drop of a glass. Her confidence carries the quirkiness of the show, allowing the self-aware melodrama to flow straight into the over the top comedy and (very slight) body horror.

There’s several one-liners peppered throughout that sometimes feel a little thrown out there compared to the other integrated and clever jokes in the script, but they all still earned their chuckles from the audience. It’s easy to imagine the show folding under the weight of all it manages to fit into its runtime, but Georgina carries it off with aplomb.

An impressive and laugh-filled debut from a talented and confident performer, Hysterical Soprano is an hour of laughs and gasps that’ll leave you craving for more.

Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano plays at Dexter at Underbelly Bistro Square at 13:15pm until 31st August - tickets and more information can be found here.

★★★★☆ (4*)

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