'Clark Andrews' Tempest' by Woodnote, The Bike Shed Theatre
An actor reminisces to himself in his dressing room about his family whilst also practicing his solo performance of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' mixing the two story's together and hoping for a better outcome than Prospero's.
I think it helps if you've seen The Tempest so you know which characters he is portraying, but I'm not sure it's essential as the pieces he enacts are just vignettes and so you do not see the end of the storylines. You may be content to see the blossoming romance of a young man and a girl, and not need to know that they are Ferdinand and Miranda.
I saw part of this play as a scratch performance in February, some elements have been dropped since then, but what remains is a masterful combination of two stories mixing silent film elements with great acting.
*****
You can next see this on Saturday at 2.50pm
'Wild Thing I Love You' by Ella Good and Nicki Kent, The City Gate Hotel
Gathered around a map under canvas Ella and Nicki tell their story of searching for Big Foot in the Californian redwood forest.
Unfortunately I just found the whole thing a bit juvenile. There was something about the way they spoke in such soft voices, they're 'subtitles' for audio interviews that clearly left large chunks out, the claiming that some audio was of terrible quality when it turned out not to be, and the way one of them put a cardboard box over her head to re-enact a conversation that really grated against me.
I did like the way they used a live camera feed to create a real-time film on a small television with effects via a magnifying glass and paper scenery.
I like travel stories, so I had high hopes for this one, but I guess you can't get much sophistication from a story of nothing really happening.
**
You can see this today (Thursday) at either 7.30 or 8.45pm
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