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Review: Extravaganza, Brewery Theatre
Being in a production meeting for the next Le Navet Bete show must be a fascinating experience.
Let’s have a unicycle. But miniature. And with firecrackers attached!
Let’s have another unicycle. But nine-feet tall!
Let’s have a banana skin, a wheelbarrow, baking trays whacked over heads, Superman pants and silly string fired into the audience.
Let’s not have a custard pie. Let’s have a quiche instead. And let’s frame the whole show around a lecture about a made-up eastern European country.
The word has already been mentioned: silly. And you don’t get much sillier than this new show performed by four men from Exeter pretending to be French and leaving their audience wincing, grimacing and laughing hysterically.
Who knew that the simple act of nodding a head could be so funny? Or that a ladder swung around a stage could prompt so much mirth?
Extravaganza is pure slapstick. It’s very silly, very funny and very simply good old-fashioned clowning at its very best.
Extravaganza is at the Brewery Theatre until Saturday. For more information, visit www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/detail/extravaganza/.
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