Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Forced Entertainement- The Thrill Of It All! Eeeeek!

This performance was sadly disappointing, it felt like a children's party show, after hearing good things about FE I was very excited for this new production, however I did not enjoy it.
Searching blindly for gags and trying without apology to make a ridiculous concept seem meaningful. Indeed the only thrill here is leaving after two long hours.
The stage is bare only filled with fake palm trees and a collection of sparkly jackets on a rale in a corner- giving off the impression that there will be a costume change- well there wasn’t!
The show starts with a dance routine that is full of energy but very shabby; not very charismatic.
This sloppy performance never seems to end; dance routine after dance routine projected like they had run out of creative ideas to fill the empty space and time.
From time to time they would break into random speeches using microphones that had been dubbed with a squirrel like voice effect for the girls which makes them all sound the same and for the boys a sound that bores with low tones of depression. I can see the idea here, however it did not add any dynamics to the performance, if anything it became boring and I found myself falling asleep.
I found the show production transparent and not very clever.


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