Satirical cabaret artists George Bourgeois and Maurice Maurice have been performing together for ten years and at Provocaré festival, Melbourne audiences are treated to an evening of comedic political activism with their fabulous show How To Save the World Without Really Trying. Capitalism has failed us. As has fascism and communism. So what's left? Well according to Bourgeois and Maurice, it's time to explore the benefits of their unique form of hedonism as the duo rip through various political issues such as marriage equality, Brexit and feminism with razor sharp wit and joy.
At one point, Burgeois and Maurice ask us to lament for the turmoil that the richest and most powerful people in the world feel in having to be in charge of all that money and needing to decide what they should do with all that fortune. It's not easy at all. Meanwhile, Maurice's emotional feminist call-to-arms performance to "kill all men" speaks volumes of truth regarding (in)equality between genders, while also providing plenty of laughs for the audience.