Georgina Gaylor well recalls her first performance with comedy outfit The Big Hoo Haa: And she’d appear on stage near-naked any day rather than go through that again.
“Underwear pales into insignificance to standing back stage at Lazy Susan’s,” the exuberant 32-year-old tells the Voice.
Which is just as well as the Fremantle local is centre-stage in some very sexy Dior scanties in her role as high-powered divorce lawyer Helena, a woman with a taste for other women’s husbands. It’s one of a number of characters Gaylor portrays in Black Swan’s two-actor “play with songs”, Midsummer (a four-piece provides live music from a bar setting on stage).
Set in Edinburgh, Gayler had to master a brogue: “My granny is from Aberdeen and I’m not game to try it out on her,” she laughs.
Brendan Hanson is the other half, playing amongst others the lead character of Bob, a petty criminal whom fate throws together with Helena, on a wet midsummer’s weekend in a bar.
She’s a lawyer, he’s a crim and they should not sleep together, Gayler says: “But they do.”
It’s the beginning of a legendary lost weekend of debauchery, hangovers, ruined weddings, a bag of stolen money, Goth kids and Japanese rope bondage.
A smash hit at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe, Midsummer is directed by WA’s Damon Lockwood and is at the State Theatre November 9–24.
by JENNY D’ANGER
Perth Voice Interactive 
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