Women Fully Clothed starts with what may well be the best sketch in the whole show. A parents-teachers reunion where all the women discuss about school maters, their wonderful kids and how much they love them, but where none of them wants to go home at the end of the meeting. It’s funny, clever and fantastically performed by the leading girls.
It’s a pity then than nothing scales such high standard again during the rest of the show. As the rest of sketches are performed by just some of the girls (they alternate acts and sometimes you get 2, 3 or 4 of them, but not all of them together), they still draw laughs from the audience, but it feels at all times as if you have already seen the best they can deliver.
That’s not to say there is nothing else to enjoy here. A story concerning three mature women who go a lake to scatter their recently deceased friend’s ashes and where they discover they might actually be lesbians after all this years, is hilarious, while a telephone conversation between a woman (fantastic Debra McGrath) and her mother and grandmother is precious in its honesty and reality. Mention should go to Kathryn Greenwood as well, not scared to poke fun at her own image, and conveying so many women’s fears and insecurities in a simple gesture or face expression.
On the whole, there are some misfires in the production (a book group convention is not funny, while a psychic visit feels to long), but the girls give their best, and there are laughs aplenty during this hour show.
3/5
Adrian G. Velazquez
