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drinks Monday 4 August 08
REVOLUTION
Verdict: Killer Can-Can
C Venues, Edinburgh, August 2002
It's a safe bet that Samantha Sanns and Emma Thornett do the
best Can-Can in town, though alas in black jeans.
And high kicks, too, over the head of Geoff Aymer on his knees as tiny Napoleon,
who gave us all so much trouble when all we wanted to do was eat cake.
And that cake - this well-crafted sketch comedy show reveals - will be Mr Kipling's
exceedingly fine because the long-awaited revolution is going to be sponsored.
BP are supplying the petrol, for Molotov Cocktails sponsored by Smirnoff,
and Anne Summers is in there somewhere too.
Revolution's loosely about revolution, from Eastenders set in Utopia, to
the Twin Towers massacre re-enacted by Peter Snow in his sandpit.
Among many parts played by the 4-strong talented cast:
Samantha Sanns dazzles
as a middle-class revolutionary, the sexiest nun in the Vatican,
Chairman Mao's catwalk model, and a tea-drinking mill-owner.
Jesus's father-in-law is exclusively
portrayed by Laurie Crowter, who's also General Pinochet selling insurance, and a
great dumb-rocker in one of the rousing ensemble numbers.
Emma Thornett radiates severity as Emily Pankhurst, gormlessness as Happy Saver's check-out
operator from hell, and hilarity as BBC's war correspondent trying to get the
combatants to stop smiling and fight. Geoff Aymer, at full height, does the Pope
as a Mafia Don, Martin Luther-King dreaming with indigestion,
and a memorable Karl Marx reading his unexpurgated first draft of the Communist Manifesto.
Director Keith Myers provides a well-focussed funny show.
Musical Director Laurence Hobbs has written and plays 3 strong songs.
Technical Director Nic Watson, well-known for his Edinburgh and London work
on the fringe, lights the show dramatically.
Written Marc Blakewill and James Harris,
with additional material from (alpha order), Geoff Aymer,
Pippa Casey, Caroline Laitner, Samantha Lewis,
Philip Lunn, Simon Ounsworth, Andrea Sadler, Jim Woroniecki and others.
Produced by Marc Blakewill and James Harris (HMS Comedy).
A fine show.
END
John Park
reviewed Friday 2 August / C Venues
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2008
