I don't tend to go for
comedies- I'm a serious kind of gal... make me emotional, make me cry
but overall, MOVE me! When I'm in a laughing mood, my sense of
humour tends to be very much equal to the British postcard- give me a
Carry On film and I'm in heaven.
This was slapstick, but
it was extremely well executed slapstick. The storyline centres
around a bunch of amateur actors putting on a play which can be
described by the saying, 'Everything that can go wrong, will go
wrong...' And it does- spectacularly!
It's one thing to act
well, but an entirely different discipline to play a bad actor- a bit
like Les Dawson performing his very clever awful piano routines- but
this cast pull it off with aplomb. The standard of writing was
superb and the comic timing impeccable. The props and stunts were
well executed and this play made me laugh from start to finish.
There was audience
participation, with a hilarious reference to the pantomime, but my
favourite parts were always when the butler- who had to write the
more complicated words of his script on his hand- mispronounced them.
This will make tears of gaiety roll from your eyes, so expect your sides to split!
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