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Patricia Quinn Saved My Life
Verdict: Rocky Horror dreams
A whirlwind show about a fanatic fan, a bullied school girl, and the actress Patricia Quinn of Rocky Horror fame (writes Eloise Emanuel).
Three narrators are Patricia Quinn at various stages in her career. As well as keeping the audience up to date with the story, they become variously: the characters' subconscious, and - cleverly - part of the scenery. And they flit in and out of the realism of the play, picking each other up on lines and specifics to good effect.
Charlotte Palmer plays Jackie with great gusto. Jackie is the edgy, down-trodden, delusional Patricia-Quinn-obsessed groupie. She aspires to fly to America to live as 'Pat' in an America where The Rocky Horror Show is screened somewhere, sometime 'every weekend of the year'. Felicity Wren pulls off the self-assured, self-obsessed diva with panache.
Patricia Quinn Saved My Life is stylised, witty and definitely grotesque at times - all thrown together with a hint of Le Coq. By the end, with the Rocky Horror theme-tune belting out, there's a definitive feel-good factor flooding through the theatre.
All in all, it's lots of fun, kinda crazy, kinda cool - with lots of leg and lots of boob.
Cast Credits (alpha order): Elicia Daly - Patricia Quinn 3. Sheena Irving - Paula. Charlotte Palmer - Jackie. Fiona Paul - Patricia Quinn 1. Felicity Wren - Patricia Quinn 2.
Company Credits: Writer - Alison Carr. Director - Sam Hoyle. Stage Managers - Rebecca Maltby, Anna Swain. Press - Wendy Richmond. Producer - Host Universal for Cafédirect 5065 Lift.
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(c) Eloise Emanuel 2004
reviewed November 04 / Hen & Chickens Theatre
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2011
www.fringereport.com
