Three different shops and six very larger than life characters greet you as wander into the Unity theatre. We start off in Christine's clothes shop where the not so bright Chloe is the shop assistant who scares away any customer who might dare to enter. Her boss, Christine has problems of a male kind, when her affair with married Mr Andrews takes a turn for the worse.
‘Father and Son’, a DIY shop for all of your DIY needs, and if you happen to walk in when happy hour is on then watch out, as the owner Carolyn will sing her wares to you, helped by her shell shocked son, David.
And finally, we have ‘Green Fingers’. Yes it sells fruit and veg, but the assistant manager is a gala melon who happens to be the son of Geoffrey and Deirdre, who have been let down by their real life son (no longer the apple of their eye).
Although full of energy, they seemed to jump from one absurd character to the next. There was nothing to link them, except that each owned a shop. There were glimpses of a plot, but then that would get swallowed by the over the top characters. We stay in each shop for longer than is necessary. What action there was in each snippet could have been told in half the time, leaving room for something else with more substance to be put in.
Alice Bunker Whitney and Holly Wilson Guy, take on the different roles. Guy played the elaborately comic characters in each section of the show. These personalities seemed to have too much in common with each other, and it was quite hard to set aside one character and pick up the next one. Whitney played the subtler, toned down characters, which seemed to work alongside Guy’s bold performance.
This is very much a mixed bag. If you took some of the League of Gentleman’s dark humour and some of its more grotesque characters, threw some of Little Britain’s more absurd, in your face characters and gave them a big shake, then this is what you would get.
Although funny at times and good performances from the cast, the lack of plot let it down. These characters would be more at home in a sketch show, rather than a theatre show.
5/10
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