It's Sid Vicious, no it's Britannia, no it's the Queen...
Tonight we went to the theatre with Miranda and Lynne to see a fellow Torinese - Arturo Brachetti
His new show Change, created specifically for the London stage, is on preview this week and will open officially on Monday and be on for over 2 months.
As the big poster says, Arturo's a quick-change artist (the fastest according to the Guinnes Book of Records) and he certainly didn't disappoint on this front.
It's one man show although there are two characters: an old Arturo reminiscing the past and a younger one. It's all very cleverly done with a cube that rotates on the stage and opens up to show Arturo's home and the use of canvases as screens.
Perhaps the show's Achilles' heel is that there's too much dialogue in the first part and that the storyline is not original enough. Also, I felt that he crammed too many references to England and tried too hard to be funny, and the audience wasn't really laughing. (As Adrian pointed out, the English don't like a foreigner coming to London to poke fun at them when they can do it themselves).
The second part of the show was the best one: less talking and more quick-changing, first with an Hollywood medley and then with an homage to Fellini (which again didn't really quite work with the audience, not that familiar with the Italian director).
Still, it was a fun show and we were glad we saw it; plus at a £10 for a stall seat at the back (preview price) a bargain too!
His new show Change, created specifically for the London stage, is on preview this week and will open officially on Monday and be on for over 2 months.
As the big poster says, Arturo's a quick-change artist (the fastest according to the Guinnes Book of Records) and he certainly didn't disappoint on this front.
It's one man show although there are two characters: an old Arturo reminiscing the past and a younger one. It's all very cleverly done with a cube that rotates on the stage and opens up to show Arturo's home and the use of canvases as screens.
Perhaps the show's Achilles' heel is that there's too much dialogue in the first part and that the storyline is not original enough. Also, I felt that he crammed too many references to England and tried too hard to be funny, and the audience wasn't really laughing. (As Adrian pointed out, the English don't like a foreigner coming to London to poke fun at them when they can do it themselves).
The second part of the show was the best one: less talking and more quick-changing, first with an Hollywood medley and then with an homage to Fellini (which again didn't really quite work with the audience, not that familiar with the Italian director).
Still, it was a fun show and we were glad we saw it; plus at a £10 for a stall seat at the back (preview price) a bargain too!