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Look out behind you . . . for real
Jack, played by Katy Stephens and the front half of the cow Oh No it
isn’t! B2
Belgrade Coventry
Oh yes it is! It’s a thumpingly good, very funny, very clever,
slightly risqué tour
de force with some
very pleasing actory references. In
fact we whistlestop from Michael Frayn’s Noises Off through a
homage to
Agatha Christie to the ‘impossible’ scene from Quentin Tarantino’s
Reservoir Dogs
- all in an hour! It’s backstage at the
alternative Jack and the Beanstalk and Daisy the Cow (Richard Kidd and
John McKeever) has lost her gun. While ‘she’ hunts for it, poor
desperate Jack (aka Jackie – Katy Stephens) is left to ham it up on
stage with an increasingly restive audience baying for blood. The little
giant (aka Sal - Clare Louise Connolly) dressed as an elf finds it and
shoots her – confused? You will be . . . As the relief of the interval
arrives and Jackie has remained prone and lifeless on stage the rest of
the cast, split into two factions – elf giant and back of cow versus
Jack Jackie and front of cow – plan the perfect murder – each faction
has a different victim in mind and both have to outsmart the other to
fulfill their evil aim. To say that Jackie has made
enemies in her personal and professional life would be seriously
understating the case and from small acquaintance Jackie wouldn’t
understate anything . . . And it’s a member of the audience who becomes
her bemused and hapless victim. Jackie is her turn is the
preferred victim of the other faction – kill or be killed, the big
philosophical question. The action becomes frenetic and confused until
the denouement. Well, suffice it to say, we never expected THAT! I loved
all the contexting references about Jane Howard
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