The Great Unwashed
Wed, 10 Apr 2002, 09:48 pmWalter Plinge15 posts in thread
The Great Unwashed
Wed, 10 Apr 2002, 09:48 pmWhen Cav Gallagher writes or presents a play, you know that you are in for a good comedy with an original theme and plenty of new ideas - The Great Unwashed was certainly that!
The story is of the revenge by a group of 'Trekkie-types' led by Myra (Michelle Baginski - who just seems to get better with every play that she is in, a great talent) on the popular TV host Fenny (Angelique Malcolm - what a fabulous sense of humour).
Myra is aided by Roy (Jez Obern) who hasn't two brain cells to rub together and Jane (Olivia Hogan) the sane one - even though she wears weird make-up, beautifully done by David Hogan.
The three girls acting was superb, just the right amount of comic presentation without being over the top. Jez got the most out of his part, raising many laughs, yet if there was a weakness in the play it was possibly the script for his part. Having said that, the play was VERY well received by the audience, with many loud bursts of laughter. Opening nights an be a little difficult, but this will refine very quickly.
This play is worth seeing.
Welcome to the Blue Room staff Christina Critch, but don't give up your acting.
The story is of the revenge by a group of 'Trekkie-types' led by Myra (Michelle Baginski - who just seems to get better with every play that she is in, a great talent) on the popular TV host Fenny (Angelique Malcolm - what a fabulous sense of humour).
Myra is aided by Roy (Jez Obern) who hasn't two brain cells to rub together and Jane (Olivia Hogan) the sane one - even though she wears weird make-up, beautifully done by David Hogan.
The three girls acting was superb, just the right amount of comic presentation without being over the top. Jez got the most out of his part, raising many laughs, yet if there was a weakness in the play it was possibly the script for his part. Having said that, the play was VERY well received by the audience, with many loud bursts of laughter. Opening nights an be a little difficult, but this will refine very quickly.
This play is worth seeing.
Welcome to the Blue Room staff Christina Critch, but don't give up your acting.
Re: The Great Unwashed
Tue, 23 Apr 2002, 12:47 pmOne rambling but honest opinion on the show coming up:
I've unfortunately got to say that I went to "The Great Unwashed" a couple of Fridays ago and I can't say I was too impressed. It was a bit of a sci-fi in-joke extravaganza that ended up getting just a little too preachy about the division between high and low art for my liking. Good to see a point was being made, just wish it wasn't in the form of lecture-style monologues. And I swear I remember seeing the plot in some sci-fi show or book I read/watched when I was smallish. I would've really liked to have seen the characters filled out with a bit more depth instead of using comic stereotypes (the dumb guy, the bitchy art critic etc) and putting all the focus on comic timing.
I did like the use of music, tragically I knew all the songs and could sing along to the majority of them. They seemed very knowledgably chosen - each one was a geek classic in it's own right and some of the selections reached into the "I can't believe I own that CD (I only listen to it when I'm alone)" section of my CD collection (David Bowie's Loving The Alien before the play started did it for me ohyeah). The costuming was fantastic too - very slick looking and well designed.
The Great Unwashed was kind of the theatrical equivelant of a science fiction teen movie (think "Scary Movie" or "Not Another Teen Movie" set in space). That is, an occasionally funny (the Courtney Love in Hamlet bit was very nice), sometimes clever show which would be a great night out if I'd drunk enough to turn my brain off. Perhaps it was simply aimed at the mainstream filmgoing public, who would almost certainly have got off on it. Given the nature of the preachy monologues (ie Hollywood scifi is just as valid as expression and entertainment as, say, Filch), this could be the case. Hmmm. I guess I just expected something a little less mainstream from my Blue Room fringe theatre entertainment experience. But maybe that's the point...
If that's the point, then is everything I've just written entirely ignorable?
Isn't everything I just wrote entirely ignorable anyway?
Just ignore it. It'll go away. :)
I've unfortunately got to say that I went to "The Great Unwashed" a couple of Fridays ago and I can't say I was too impressed. It was a bit of a sci-fi in-joke extravaganza that ended up getting just a little too preachy about the division between high and low art for my liking. Good to see a point was being made, just wish it wasn't in the form of lecture-style monologues. And I swear I remember seeing the plot in some sci-fi show or book I read/watched when I was smallish. I would've really liked to have seen the characters filled out with a bit more depth instead of using comic stereotypes (the dumb guy, the bitchy art critic etc) and putting all the focus on comic timing.
I did like the use of music, tragically I knew all the songs and could sing along to the majority of them. They seemed very knowledgably chosen - each one was a geek classic in it's own right and some of the selections reached into the "I can't believe I own that CD (I only listen to it when I'm alone)" section of my CD collection (David Bowie's Loving The Alien before the play started did it for me ohyeah). The costuming was fantastic too - very slick looking and well designed.
The Great Unwashed was kind of the theatrical equivelant of a science fiction teen movie (think "Scary Movie" or "Not Another Teen Movie" set in space). That is, an occasionally funny (the Courtney Love in Hamlet bit was very nice), sometimes clever show which would be a great night out if I'd drunk enough to turn my brain off. Perhaps it was simply aimed at the mainstream filmgoing public, who would almost certainly have got off on it. Given the nature of the preachy monologues (ie Hollywood scifi is just as valid as expression and entertainment as, say, Filch), this could be the case. Hmmm. I guess I just expected something a little less mainstream from my Blue Room fringe theatre entertainment experience. But maybe that's the point...
If that's the point, then is everything I've just written entirely ignorable?
Isn't everything I just wrote entirely ignorable anyway?
Just ignore it. It'll go away. :)
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