Reviewed by: A Thousand Words
Coco the Time-Travelling Tart is an obscene journey through time with plenty of audience participation. Coco, our guide for an hour of time-travelling via a London black cab (driving mimed by an audience member), towers over the audience despite wearing just 2-inch heels. And if Max Norman’s character of Coco didn’t have you squirming in your seat, the increasingly bawdy and filthy jokes will.
Embodying the spirit of drag performances, Coco relies on both double and single entendres as she takes us from the present day to the era of the Virgin Queen, to Ancient Egypt (be ready to make a pyramid with your guide), and beyond. If you’re more of a wallflower, the front row is not the place for you; certainly don’t sit right by the props box as this reviewer did. But if you want to robe a new pope and wear a minotaur mask, take the chance!