Reviewed by: Glam Adelaide
Review by Kristin Stefanoff | 19 February 2022
What could be more topical than a show about Scott Morrison with an election looming in the near future? ScoMo’s Sunday Service serves us an hour of worship at the altar of the arts, featuring one of Australia’s holiest pastimes – roasting politicians. We enter the sanctuary to meditative organ music and are invited to take a seat and a hymn sheet. The show begins much like a church service, complete with hymn in only vaguely comprehensive Middle English, and a sermon by ‘Scott Morrison’. This leads us into a flashback that lays to rest, once and for all, one of life’s deepest mysteries: did Scott Morrison really poop his pants at the Engadine Macca’s in 1997? The show is presented by a pair of actors, one playing Scott Morrison, and one playing everyone else (including the poo…). Both prove to have excellent comic timing and keep the show moving through joke after joke. The actor playing Scott Morrison has clearly done his research into ScoMo’s mannerisms, down to the last ‘um’, while the other member of the cast shows great versatility in playing everyone from Jenny, the angel Gerald, and the head of Hillsong Church, all the way to the infamous poo itself. The script was clever and very, very funny, using ScoMo and Jenny’s preparations for a Grand Final party as a metaphor for ScoMo’s entire period as Prime Minister. Jokes and political references come thick and fast, and are seamlessly woven into the narrative. Interspersed through the show were original songs. These were both musically interesting and contained clever lyrics. However, the one thing letting down the show in this regard is a lack of vocal training in both of the actors, and while the songs were definitely funny, I’m still unsure of what the melody actually was in most of the songs. Fans of political humour, and anyone who enjoyed Scientology the Musical at the 2019 Fringe, will soil themselves with laughter at ScoMo’s Sunday Service.