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Clak!
Verdict: Clowns do movies
Edinburgh 05 - Sweet Ego - 21:00 (1:00)
Two black-clad robbers (Angel Amieva & Mateo Amieva) use a computer keyboard and some unconvincing mime to steal an Oscar. They cut through the laser beams (pieces of red thread) and play paper, scissors, stone for who should have it. There are sight gags galore and slapstick.
After a manic nod to a number of films, a policeman arrives and sinks into a prolonged gay kiss with one of the criminals. The Amieva twins have evolved a way of working that turns surreal and silly. Their comedy is very basic, physical - and sometimes very funny. It is difficult to tell them apart
Pulp Fiction starts with a strange razor dance, a severed ear and ends with a swapping of guns - only one of which works for one of them. Their timing and the timing of the technical operator (Fidel Villabrille) is exact.
Once they start mixing different films and genres, it is hard to know exactly where one ends and another begins. All end in absurdity.
A thief is lowered sideways towards a sideways facing WC to have a pee. The audience is persuaded to observe with heads on one side. A pizza delivery is made to Dracula’s castle. Two sunflowers and a model plane replay the sequence from ‘North by Northwest’.
For ‘Love Story’, they recruit an audience member. She is left with a dead body. A police search produces a Rubik’s Cube and courgette from her bottom. The ghost of the dead man interacts mischievously with the real world.
A raptor in Jurasic Park is about to devour a child. Viewers are asked to text whether escape or death should follow. Zorro’s sword-fight with a Catherine Zeta-Jones look-alike becomes a tap dance, a fist fight, a bull fight.
What they do to Moulin Rouge is very rude and funny.
The Amieva brothers are masterful. It's circus clowning, not theatre. The stage seems to limit them. They constantly threaten to invade the audience. Their humour will appear crude to some. It's memorable and entertaining.
Cast Credits: (alpha order): Angel Amieva. Mateo Amieva.
Company Credits: Writer – Angel Amieva. Co-director and Producer – Robert Cavanah. Director – Angel Amieva. Technical Operator – Fidel Villabrille. Company – Capa I Espasa.
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(c) Peter Andrews 2005
reviewed Friday 12 August 05 / Sweet Ego
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2012
www.fringereport.com
