Wanting Widescreen

Vagabond Theatre's latest production 'Wanting Widescreen' was written by Patrick Spicer (recently seen in the Malcom Crisp trilogy) has produced an excellent script.

The main character Dave 'Filth' (Spicer) is a punk, reminiscent of Rik Mayall's 'Bottom' character, who has trouble finding words in his vocabulary with more than 4 letters. His over the top portrayal of Dave is brilliant.

Dave has one ambition in life - to own a widescreen TV - and he would do anything to achieve this. When his desires are overheard by an on-looker, this person sends along his number one representative Mervyn (Cavan Gallagher) to spell out, in words of dozens of letters, what is required for Dave to own this TV.

This idea works very well, a little editing of the dialogue between the rep. and his 'boss' (Steve Black) would tighten the whole thing up a little. Lots of good ideas, with a wonderful but small cameo by Amber Royle.

Both Cavan - a Curtin student, famed for his hilarious eccentric scripts - and Patrick are described by the very capable director Jo Marsh as 'madmen'. All have worked very hard at this unusual play.