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Goga (cont.)
The Improv Review
By Syd Steinhardt
Though jarring at first, it works, owing much to the charming presence of the four cast members. Their movement skills are on display at the outset, when goga bounds onstage to pulsating house music, crisscrossing the stage in what seems to be an improvised dance number with each member taking a turn changing the movement. After a few minutes of this, they head into a show of unconnected vignettes. One can take this to mean that goga trusts its audience to believe that its show has not been worked out beforehand. In that way, goga plays up, rather than down, to its audience's level of intelligence and sophistication.
Depending upon how long it takes to figure out what is supposed to happen onstage, goga was consistently witty, if not out loud funny. On this night, many of the jokes involved alcoholism, which can be funny but can also betray a lack of imagination. It is worth noting, however, that the goga girls did not fall into the trap of going for obvious jokes about bodily functions and sex.
The main weaknesses of the show were the transitions between vignettes. At one point, a character was brought back from an earlier scene, which made for some delightful repartee and situations. Since that was the only such occasion, the audience could be forgiven for wondering if it were accidental, convenient or intentional.
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