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action, but for the most part, it defies audiences to treat the show with cosy nostalgia while giving it a bold, modern dynamic.
What the production will not be remembered for is the quality of its diction. Whether it is a product of the EFT acoustics, the operatic voice or a French company attempting Southern accents is hard to say, but I picked up only five per cent of the words despite the familiar score. (Mark Fisher) ■ Edinburgh Festival Theatre, run now ended.
TWONKEY’S COTTAGE Just plain silly ●●●●●
There’s a lot to love about Paul Vickers and his not-for-kids, kids show. Ambling onstage at midday he launches into the story of Twonkey, a small, limp character perched onstage in front of a model cottage, whose love for acid house he indicates with some fierce strobe lighting.
From then on the pace slackens to an enjoyable stroll through the spoken word pieces on his latest album, Fucking Storys. Vickers specialises in surreal non-sequiturs, and finds a way to derail each of his short works by bringing in the odd unnecessary word or disconcerting phrase. His comedic set pieces are similarly daft – the best is when he tries to smoke a witch out of a toy windmill using a sparkler, and thus restore it to its proper purpose of grain production.
There’s music as well of course.
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