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Publication unknown, 19/7/90. Review by Robert Housley
The Doug Anthony Allstars, His Majesty's Theatre.
If you love them then you'll be in the audience, but if you hate them you'll be as far away from His Majesty's Theatre as possible.
The Doug Anthony Allstars are that cut and dried.
The first of their five Perth shows last night gave the audience what it had come to see - no-holds-barred topical comedy without the frills.
The treacherous trio - Richard Fidler, Paul McDermott and Tim Ferguson - make their entrance emptying rubbish bins on stage in a ritual warning of the verbal sludge that is to follow.
With sung and "free verse" attacks these bad boys from the east unearth social taboos by the shovelful.
Sexuality of every persuasion rates more than a passing mention as they bulldoze their way through no-nos.
One man sitting in the front row was left only in his G-string after a truth-and-dare exchange with Ferguson.
Hecklers are dealt with summarily, no matter how persistent.
The DAAS perform their "sex and violence" show (a dig at the humbug of publicity, but not far from the truth) at His Majesty's today and tomorrow at 6pm and 8pm.
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