Welcome to Bunt is a sock puppet, skit, town meeting playing at Melbourne Fringe. The brainchild of Sophie Joske and Elly Squire brings to life a plethora of town citizens to fill out the digital show.

Each audience member is given a link to the meeting minutes, as the show follows the townspeople debating whether or not to open up their formally reclusive town to outsiders. The throng of characters provide a colourful backdrop to the sinkhole dramas, pie sacrifices, and in-town disagreements to be had at the general meeting.

Whilst this digital show is charming and the duo is ambitious and tireless in creating an engaging and entertaining township, it was missing a little polish. Feeling more like an improv show that could have worked with a larger cast, it was hard to justify the duo working so tirelessly.

Despite the difficulties that digital fringe posed when translating stage to screen, there were top efforts from the duo to digitise the idea. It would be interesting to see how Joske and Squire would have worked in a live setting, given the obvious fun they had with the piece. 

Welcome to Bunt is available on Melbourne Fringe digital until November 29.

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DISCLAIMER: I make these reviews as a theatre goer, these are my own opinions, to make your own decisions about the shows I review go and support the arts and buy a ticket! (Or not, up to you.)

(A version of this review and some of my other reviews also appears on the Theatre Now website.)