Lost Hellfire
Sun, 9 Nov 2003, 09:55 amWalter Plinge5 posts in thread
Lost Hellfire
Sun, 9 Nov 2003, 09:55 am'Lost Hellfire' is two new episodes of Luke Milton's brilliant series 'Across Hellfire'. They are showing at the Midland Town Hall - which is the spectacular building on the main road through Midland.
These episodes are what should have been episodes four and seven of the eight show series.
It opened to a full house of 380 people on the Friday night and a quite respectble number on the Saturday. A superb 8-sided programme brought people up to date with the series, who is who and what has happened previously - just in case they hadn't seen any shows before. However I could hear people around me asking 'what is this about?' as they were probably going to read their programmes at home later. So a live brief resume of the plot would have helped before the show.
Claire Hooper replaced Renee as Aimee, capably taking over a very well established part.
There were two episodes, the first, to quote Luke was a silly Halloween type scene. I found it the weakest of the 8 shows. There was one character who was Elvis's twin brother, good script, good story line - beautifully acted by Adam Mitchell, but I feel acted in the wrong persona. As most of the characters are as usual 'over the top', with this extra mad character the show became manic with all of the cast being on 'speed'. Had Elvis been a cool dude, as he was in real life and gradually changing towards the end, then I feel this episode would have been a lot better. Sorry Luke.
The second 'lost' episode, had guest appearances by Stuart Packham and Nisha Rivett and was back to the normal standard. Brilliant story line and very well portaryed by the whole cast.
Both shows well worth the extensive journey to the east! and at $10 full price who can miss it?
Gordon
These episodes are what should have been episodes four and seven of the eight show series.
It opened to a full house of 380 people on the Friday night and a quite respectble number on the Saturday. A superb 8-sided programme brought people up to date with the series, who is who and what has happened previously - just in case they hadn't seen any shows before. However I could hear people around me asking 'what is this about?' as they were probably going to read their programmes at home later. So a live brief resume of the plot would have helped before the show.
Claire Hooper replaced Renee as Aimee, capably taking over a very well established part.
There were two episodes, the first, to quote Luke was a silly Halloween type scene. I found it the weakest of the 8 shows. There was one character who was Elvis's twin brother, good script, good story line - beautifully acted by Adam Mitchell, but I feel acted in the wrong persona. As most of the characters are as usual 'over the top', with this extra mad character the show became manic with all of the cast being on 'speed'. Had Elvis been a cool dude, as he was in real life and gradually changing towards the end, then I feel this episode would have been a lot better. Sorry Luke.
The second 'lost' episode, had guest appearances by Stuart Packham and Nisha Rivett and was back to the normal standard. Brilliant story line and very well portaryed by the whole cast.
Both shows well worth the extensive journey to the east! and at $10 full price who can miss it?
Gordon