It’s Not What You Know continues at theSpace @ Surgeons Hall until 17 August.
blot THEATRE is a group of students/graduates from Hull University, in many cases off to drama school shortly, and in It’s Not What You Know they create a comedy, a cappella sketch revue exploring the world of Rose, a recent graduate from the Traditional Academy of Dramatic Art (TADA), and her struggle with agents, rejections, creepy/over-the-top ex-friends, and FizT (Physical Theatre, darling).
The songs in It’s Not What You Know are traditional West End classics with a twist on the lyrics, and there are some genuinely fun industry in-jokes and witty ideas. In the end Rose succeeds by taking the advice of her Fagin-like agent… “you’ve got to show a nipple or two”. The singing is fun and well-drilled, but the sketch idea is stretched very thin and if they plan to continue to create ‘musical parodies’, they need to get much tighter dramatically.
NB. A small reviewer’s plea. PLEASE have a programme sheet/cast list available for the audience. It costs peanuts and you have no idea who is going to be wanting to follow one performer or the whole show. It’s only fair to everyone involved to credit them. There was one person in the company I really wanted to praise, and I wasn’t able to.
Chris Grady
Cast – Jack Chamberlain, Jack Fielding, Jessica Daniels, Robert Dennett, Louise O’Connor, Adrian Chisholm and Constance Wookey
Director – Joe Ball
Musical Director/Arranger/Producer – James Frewer
www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/it-s-not-what-you-know
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