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| Alice and Ned, Mansplaining |
Alice Tovey is happy that men are coming to her new show,
but the show isn’t made for them. Alice is tired of society making things for
men, even when they already exist, so Mansplaining
is for all the non-men in the room.
Actually… and here, I feel trapped. Not that I’m complaining
about being trapped, not at all. My privilege suggests that my feeling trapped feels
nowhere near as bad as the typical life experience of women or people of
colour. That’s what Alice sings about, how society works when no one challenges
the status quo.
Wait, am I mansplaining Mansplaining?
Alice, accompanied by Ned Dixon on piano, jumps from a beat
poem about fragile male ego to racism in Australia to a peppy song about Islam.
The pair are skewering the ridiculous power structures of
society. These songs are layered in meaning and hilarious in execution. One
minute you’re tapping your feet or clapping along; the next minute, Alice is
calling for women’s bodily autonomy from bro dudes called Trip, Chase and
Roofie.
While the style of songs varied wildly - Alice can give you
soulful poetry, rat-a-tat rap and a deep song about how feelings age you, the
humour is always front and centre. Sometimes you laugh out loud and sometimes
you recoil from the truth bombs she drops like a rapper drops a mic.
Alice is a clever lyricist who can sing the hell out
of her rage. Women, get along. Men, it’s not for you, but you should go anyway.
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