Who needs a load of props when you have a company this game? Within the first few minutes of Voloz Collective’s comic financial thriller, the actors have brought to life pigeons, windscreen wipers and office water coolers – complete with coos, squeaks and shivering glugs respectively.
In a highly physical production, it’s the noughties and Jess Wildgoose has clicked her heels and left Kansas to make it big on Wall Street, but can’t break into the boys’ club. On stage, the synthesiser accompaniment from musician Frederick Waxman, kept every bit as busy as the other four performers, captures Jess’s sense of wonder at the financial district’s skyscrapers, brought to life with glowing handheld photo frames. In the title role, Olivia Zerphy does well to get us onside with a character who sees beauty in the markets and whose financial career is driven by the dust-bowl wreckage of the Great Depression.
