REVIEW: Nice Fish, Harold Pinter Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The piece may not be ground breaking nor revolutionary, but it is hugely entertaining.
The piece may not be ground breaking nor revolutionary, but it is hugely entertaining.
The joy of the play and the original text comes from the inverted morality of Screwtape’s world, where good is bad and sinning is applauded.
As for this show, it’s all rather pretty and well-behaved and won’t do you any harm. Nothing to be ashamed of.
It cleverly blurs the line between reality and what we are seeing on stage in a way that is unsettling and leaves you questioning the theatrical experience itself.
By the time everyone trooped back onto the stage for the group curtain call, we all knew we’d been through something special. And for all of you who missed him this time around, keep ‘em peeled: he’ll be back!
This is a play which is going somewhere, and it could be going somewhere really, really big, but right now it’s a boy who is old enough to smell but not yet old enough to shave. It needs more development before it will become really attractive.
As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subject matter, you may have your enthusiasm rewarded. If not, prepare to encounter problems.
Jest End returns to Waterloo East with a new, updated show which takes all the musicals you know and love, and tears them to pieces.