The lady is a tramp and she doesn’t give a fig!
Dressed all in pink Kiki Bittovabitsch opened her show The Great Kazadorian Fountain of Hope at the Square of Friday at 6pm.
She instantly established her character; an Eastern European Princess that takes shit from no one, not even a flag waving Australian child in the front row who was promptly stuffed into her bottomless black bag of props.
Kiki’s story that she has lost her home country of Kazador, and so shares tales of the fictional land was brilliantly progressive and inventive; it ended with a penultimate stunt in which she stood atop a volunteer and sprayed water from a flower crown on her head, requesting donations for a wish at her fountain.
As a contortionist Kiki wowed with the feat of fitting her whole body through a tennis racket, first an arm… then a leg… then the rest. Her self-targeted humour was unapologetic and refreshingly feminine as she joked about being able to perform due to her flat chest, flashing her underwear professing that “underwear is funny guys!” in her hilarious accent. The Winchester audience were truly won over by Kiki; to those unsure whether to laugh at a woman pretending to fart she exclaimed “C’mon Winchester you’re not too posh for a fart joke!”
Kiki’s show had the perfect balance of children’s entertainment though slapstick comedy, bright costume and ‘story time’ presence, as well as adult humour with sexual innuendo and flirtations with the audience. For example, she told one little girl “I could be your new mummy” as she attached a bell to volunteer dad Rob’s private area.
Kiki was a highlight of this year’s Hat Fair weekend as I’m sure many will agree and I hope she returns next year to paint the town pink!