Fringe and weekend catchup
I've been playing catch up ever since we've been back for holiday adding a Peru entry nearly every day. Saturday was a Brighton Fringe play called Godfather Death. St. Andrew's church in Hove was a pretty venue though the pew benches drained the enthusiasm from the performance. The actors were excellent with some clever small touches but the story was a little too simple even boring. Then all of a sudden it ended.
The evening was another Fringe do called Kanoti/Bamboozled seeing a free screening of various animated films from local producers (see Beastenders by Cyriak as an example). It was a nice feeling to see so many outside the town library watching the projected films. Pity the screen was a bit small but the films were excellent whilst trying to ignore the bemused hen and stag night tourists passing by. You can actually see us standing in the video footage they took of on the night on the website. Afterwards we headed over to Paul and Sarah's for a good local gathering for a late, boozy party and plenty of Tuaca.
Improv the Turkey
A mid-week Fringe performance on Tuesday night with 'Improv the Movie' back at the Malborough Little Theatre. They arrived 15 minutes late but at least they gave away some free popcorn. The downstairs bar was packed so it seemed like the upstairs theatre would be buzzing. This was not to be the case and the rest of the audience seemed already in a bored mood. The concept was the audience picked the genre, the film's title, the starting line and the final line for two features. 'Gremlins of Croydon' was supposed to be a romance but they couldn't even do that, whilst 'The man with the giant shoes', a film noir concentrated too much on the penguins (from the opening line given). The actors were a real hotch potch of characters, some had an ounce of talent but couldn't quite hold the show together. I just don't think the concept worked and there was not enough audience input. They tried making it a little more interesting by the sound and light effects adding some random setting to spice things up but they were either ignored or fell flat. We were glad it was over and so were the actors as they almost didn't come for the final curtain.
The evening was another Fringe do called Kanoti/Bamboozled seeing a free screening of various animated films from local producers (see Beastenders by Cyriak as an example). It was a nice feeling to see so many outside the town library watching the projected films. Pity the screen was a bit small but the films were excellent whilst trying to ignore the bemused hen and stag night tourists passing by. You can actually see us standing in the video footage they took of on the night on the website. Afterwards we headed over to Paul and Sarah's for a good local gathering for a late, boozy party and plenty of Tuaca.
Improv the Turkey
A mid-week Fringe performance on Tuesday night with 'Improv the Movie' back at the Malborough Little Theatre. They arrived 15 minutes late but at least they gave away some free popcorn. The downstairs bar was packed so it seemed like the upstairs theatre would be buzzing. This was not to be the case and the rest of the audience seemed already in a bored mood. The concept was the audience picked the genre, the film's title, the starting line and the final line for two features. 'Gremlins of Croydon' was supposed to be a romance but they couldn't even do that, whilst 'The man with the giant shoes', a film noir concentrated too much on the penguins (from the opening line given). The actors were a real hotch potch of characters, some had an ounce of talent but couldn't quite hold the show together. I just don't think the concept worked and there was not enough audience input. They tried making it a little more interesting by the sound and light effects adding some random setting to spice things up but they were either ignored or fell flat. We were glad it was over and so were the actors as they almost didn't come for the final curtain.
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