Reviews
"Moira Finucane's outrageous burlesque on substance abuse, The Dairy Queen got the evening's temperature just right. In dazzling white bikini and hurling ropes of pearls around her throat, she sang, strutted and squeezed bottles of milk between her thighs, squirting herself and the cheering punters with every lascivious bump and grind."
The Australian on The Dairy Queen, 1999
"The most powerful moment of the night. Sauce consists of Finucane coming slowly onto the stage, dressed in a pristine white nurse uniform and neurotically clutching a bumper sized bottle of tomato sauce to her chest. As she grips and twists, gouts of the sauce stains white uniform and drip to the floor. It's surprisingly visceral, I actually felt sick. She wrings the bottle, offers it to us like a sacred heart... It's a tribute to her strength as a performer.."
InPress on Sauce, 2000
"Strange things happen. How many times have you heard a contemporary dance audience squealing in horror during a performance? They did when towering rippling milk maid Moira Finucane threatened to shower them with two huge cartons of milk during her Dairy Queen act - a perverse obscene hilarious take on the Big M ads of the late 70s. No compliant surfie chick was this Dairy Queen.."
The Age on The Dairy Queen, 1999
"Finucane painted a rich yet frigid picture of a deserted frozen mansion where 2 siblings waited for him.... Finucane allowed no certainty here, only deeper mysteries...delivering the tale with her characteristic tall cracked physical grace.."
Realtime on 'Sisters' monologue, 2002
"Camp and stunning technique in enough shovelsful to obliterate Sunset Boulevard's Norma Desmond at the neighbouring Regent Theatre. Built layer by hysterical layer, this frenetic monologue by Moira Finucane's demented dive Argentina Gina Catalina, describes falling from her aerialist mother's breast onto the Antarctic icefloes, being suckled by wolves and captured by stinking bandits. Freeing herself by deeds of violent strength, swimming with whales and living with bears, Finucane's heroine redresses gender bias and feral masculinism in a strapless white stain gown and gloves, and joyously brings the house down.."
The Australian on Argentina Gina Catalina, 1997
"... but it's Moira Finucane who steals the show from Romeo to the psychotic waitress of Expresso and as Argentina Gina Catalina ... who tells of trawling the streets with her twelve dogs looking for meat.."
Sydney Morning Herald on cLUB bENT UK tour, 1996
"Hugely popular ... Expresso is an entrancing and confronting piece. Her character can only be described as a spacy waitress and we journey with her through the making of a coffee. Her utensils appear out of nowhere ...."
Melbourne Star Observer on Expresso, 1999
"Inexpressibly funny and weird. perhaps it can be described as poetry without words"."
Capital Q on Expresso, 1996
"Moira Finucane stole the show....hilarious and very scary."
The Herald-Sun on The Dairy Queen, 1999
"More than a simple reversal of male to female drag , Finucane's Romeo negotiated the crossing from female to male and back again . In Finucane's performance the sexed body is already a product and is always situated within and formed in relation to ongoing processed of power knowledge and representation. The same precisely drawn gestures which made Romeo so compelling were also present on Meat a high camp exploration of female desire and sexuality by the diva/goddess Argentina Gina Catalina. Dressed in a scarlet, vinyl costume ... she told the story of and affair with a woman in an alley using the metaphor of her corpulent pet dogs. The extraordinary text of Meat carried her performance somewhere I'm yet to return from."
Realtime on Romeo and Argentina Gina Catalina, 1995
"Yes this is a woman with breasts, but the ways/he moves is masculine. Yes the lump in her pants in not a penis, but when she removes it she does not become a woman. This is what I call genderfuck."
Theatre Australasia on Romeo, 1995