Threeway – the title alone conjures up a plethora of neck breaking, Twister-like positions, all saturated in mood lighting, sweat and very guilty pleasures. Which is what Threeway, the cabaret, will contain. Kinda.
Behind this decadently funny piece of musical theatre is the premise that when it comes to love triangles, no one is in control. Written by Belinda Dunbar and directed by James Brookes, with musical direction by Tim Cunniffe, Threeway is a funny look at adultery and infidelity and stars WAAPA graduate Shai Yammanee as the cheating, love-struck Colin.
For Yammanee, the character of Colin is an ambitious, genuine and misguided one, albeit a contradiction wracked with regret after he commits adultery and realises the immensity the situation.
Of his character’s indiscretions, Yammanee explains, ‘His life has lost its spark, there’s no spontaneity. He’s often caught up with what his wife wants, and what his wife wants is usually what he doesn’t want. As a result, because he can’t give her what she wants his wife nags him. A lot.
‘Then, when he meets her friend – the one with whom he has an affair with – he becomes infatuated: she’s new, she approaches life in a way that is completely different from his wife and that makes her very appealing. Even in the bedroom she’s more adventurous and playful.’
For Yammanee, Colin is something of an adulterous Everyman, and the ‘threeway’ he finds himself in, a common one.
‘A lot of relationships, once people have been in them for a long time, undergo this point where people just want to change. People ask themselves what could my life have been? And I think that if you actually do cheat you’ll find out it wasn’t actually worth it and realise what you do have… There is a reason why you’re with the person you’re with in the first place. There’s a reason why you fell in love with them. All too often it seems people lose themselves in the mundane events of life.’
If you’re lost in the mundane and seeking a healthy dose of musical theatre, Threeway is your best port of call, as it features such wonderful songs as I Love Paris, My Husband The Pig, King of the World, SOS and The Winner Takes It All. Yammanee will star alongside – and at times under – the combined talent of Clare Moore and Sharon Wisniewski. Threeway opens Tuesday, June 24 and runs until Saturday, July 5 downstairs at His Majesty’s Theatre as part of The Brainbox Project. www.bocsticketing.com.au
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