Dancing with rage: Chutzpah mingles with rage as Mary Walsh bares her soul on the stage.
Photos Barb Gray.
It takes a particular kind of chutzpah to ambush political figures and conduct mock interviews. It takes nerve for a woman of a certain age (actually 61) to sport a ridiculous warrior princess outfit, complete with plastic sword. But both are as nothing compared to stripping down to unflattering, expansive and expanded spandex, black underwear and making fun of the aging body squeezed in and flowing out.
As Newfoundland comedienne Mary Walsh a.k.a. Marg Delahunty says, even the nuns who despaired of her through her schooldays never thought she would sink this low. But that is part of her charm for audiences. Her self-deprecating humour in general and this moment in particular (further enhanced by attacking the flesh flow with electrician’s tape) is one of the funniest and most endearing aspects of her one-woman show, Dancing with Rage.