Bombshells

Six women are on the brink. They are agitated, they wring towels in frustration, they have reached breaking point. Why do we pretend everything is all good? And what happens when we drop an indelicate bombshell? Brought to you by Wit Incorporated, Bombshells frames the emotional rollercoaster that is life in six outrageously hilarious vignettes. 

Playing at the Bluestone Church Arts Space till Saturday, 24 March, Bombshells is a two-woman show, starring Belinda Campbell and Jennifer Piper who each play three unique characters. Campbell’s characters include Meryl, a self-doubting and neurotic mother who struggles to juggle the daily demands of maintaining a household, her sanity and other people’s impressions of her, and Mary, a high-school student who channels her inner J’amie while practising for the school’s talent show in a farcical yet endearing display. Her finest performance goes to the most eye-raising and controversial character in the show: Winsome Webster. She is a widow who buries her grief by reading to the blind. That all changes, however, when she reads to a charming young man and finds herself aroused by his gaze, resulting in a sexual exchange in the sun room at his house. 

Piper had the crowd in stitches with her portrayals of her characters. First there was Tiggy – a self-proclaimed ‘cactophile’, who dropped a bombshell that her husband Harry is having an affair; then a bride, while wanting to be “possessed” by her man, has a serious bout of cold feet; and finally, a washed-up American diva belting out cabaret confesses her secrets on stage.