Wau Wau Sisters' Last Supper

★★★★
archive review (edinburgh) | Read in About 1 minute
Published 18 Aug 2010
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Two Catholic schoolgirls stand on either side of the doorway. All pigtails, hockey socks and tiny kilts, they welcome audience members with a beaming smile and a communion wafer pinched between lime-green nails. Offended? You should leave now. If not, eat the wafer and sit at the end of a row (you’re more likely to be asked to help the girls remove an item of clothing). 

Over the show's course, the pair transform into guitar-playing cowgirls, pagan goddesses and tigerish cavewomen, moving between standup, singing and acrobatics with ease. After an astonishing trapeze act, the show ends with a riotous rewrite of the last supper. Not one for the prudish, but if you haven’t yet been fed grapes by a woman wearing a furry leopard-print bikini, you’re missing out on an essential festival experience.