Trolley Girls, which was cooked up by Jessica Forrest and Olivia Faye of the Sugar Butties Theatre Company, is a cabaret show, so the truly intimate venue that is The Museum of Comedy feels very appropriate. That being said, get ready to cuddle up to your neighbour, and beware of your view being restricted if a taller person sits in front of you.

Forrest and Faye are touring this production, which inevitably means that it needs to be adaptable to varying spaces and audiences, however due to the layout of the space on this occasion, there are moments when both actors are completely masked from view, and it is apparent that this issue has not been wholly thought through. The style of theatre is incredibly ambitious, with the actors changing characters rapidly to perform scenes in a comical sketch show fashion. However, as the piece goes on, it increasingly feels as if the two are simply putting on amusing voices and accents instead of creating individual characters. There are amusing moments, such as popular songs being parodied and raunchy jokes being fired back and forth, however the transitions between the actors’ respective characters are at times unclear, leading to moments of flatness, as if they are waiting for their cue. Songs are also used as the entire structure for some scenes, leading to repetitive movements and drawn out pauses, leaving this viewer waiting for something to actually happen.  That said, the interplay between Forrest and Faye is delightful with a great energy.

Due to the rapid turn around of personas and the nature of the show, costume is minimal, consisting of items including bowler hats, ASDA uniform tops and tracksuit bottoms, with songs chopping and changing each scene. The lighting is simple, at points utilising the spotlight during ballads, however the stage is mostly lit by an overall warm, yellow tone.

With moments of delicious cheekiness, if more time is spent on tidying and tightening Trolley Girls, I have no doubt that it could be a fabulously fun piece of theatre. As it stands though, the overall feeling is that of laziness, presenting one-dimensional characters and relying on saucy moves and bad language for laughs.

Trolley Girls played The Museum of Comedy until July 4.