If you’re looking for boob biscuits and a perfume that smells like the end of apartheid, Siân and Zoë’s bubblegum party is going to cause your sides to split. But, that said, I couldn’t tell you what exactly Siân and Zoë’s bubblegum party is. I think it might be a play or maybe a sketch show, although I’m not really sure and I don’t think that any of the cast know either. My best description would be a bewildering cavalcade of self-referential humour and anti-humour. However, the show’s identity crisis didn’t particularly detract. Perhaps losing the (sort-of) plot about a rivalry with their blue haired, better smelling twins, ‘Minty Fresh’, would have reduced this confusion but wouldn’t have allowed for the terrific word play of “uke-a-faily” and audience participation of chanting “minty shit bitch”. Moreover, confusion and bewilderment seems to be the whole point.

The party theme was not entirely lost. The evening started with party games like ‘Pin the condom on the danger’, but led to the girls (sorry, women) singing ‘Please let me suck you off’. Fortunately, Zoë’s grandmother was in the audience; a family reunion to remember. References to Two Girls One Cup and The Vagina Monologues, together with plenty of meta-comedic self-referencing, prevented the female double act from turning into yet another lesbian comedy stereotype.

While it was never entirely obvious who had written what, there was clearly a lot of spontaneous ‘acting’ in part provoked by a dodgy tech team. Zoë Tomalin once again stood out; however, standing out in a two woman, hour long show isn’t always a good thing. Siân Docksey, not holding anything back, showed a wide range of talent from spontaneous tap dancing to two cord ukulele playing. Holding poise during a well written Waiting for Godot sketch was an obvious struggle but this did not overshadow the Dr. Seuss dialogue and tooth-floss horror scenes.

The Bubble-gum party was hugely funny and caused me to laugh out loud more than the Footlights’ Perfect Strangers did. This is definitely one to see if you want something different but still want to laugh.