Jack Cameron has a doppleganger
Someone put me out of my misery! Who does this guy remind me of??? I saw him in The Custard Boys the other day, and I've been wracking my brain ever since trying to work out who he looks like.
eta: And, drum roll... We have a winner, thanks to marciaelena.
It's Lucas Grabeel! (Grabeel on the left, Jack Cameron on the right - see what I mean?!).
And while I'm thinking about The Custard Boys, super-quick reviews of the plays I've seen so far this month.
Written on the Heart @ The Duchess Theatre
Worthy, but dull. Too much clumsy exposition (a lot consisted of a serving maid asking a Bishop questions, and was hopelessly unbelievable), that still probably wasn't enough to make the play entirely accessible to anyone without a good background in the history of the translation of the Bible, but was boring for those familiar with the story.
Two Roses for Richard Third @ The Courtyard Theatre
When a play opens with a man in a boars head (Richard, Duke of Gloucester) watching the rest of the cast strip off and randomly swap clothes and swat at other clothes on a washing line above the stage, you can guess it's going to be a weird evening. Add to that five different actors and one actress playing King Richard, lots of aerial work, music, dancing and murders, and a scene where Edward IV breaks character and tells the audience that it's really hard to die on stage, and you end up with a bizarre, sometimes incomprehensible, sometimes fascinating production. Oh, and it was in Portugese, apart from Edward IV's aside to the audience, and a couple of other random moments. Yeah.
The Custard Boys @ The Tabard Theatre
I loved this! A group of sixteen year old boys (mostly evacuees) at school in Norfolk during World War II find their gang turned upside down when one of the boys is asked to look after an Austrian Jew, who he falls in love with. It was performed on a tiny stage, with clever use of minimal props to depict schoolrooms, a tree house, a bus, a beach and all the other locations. The young cast were all utterly convincing as the boys, and played the adults (parents and school teachers) cleverly as the sort of caricatures the boys would see them as. I really hope this play ends up getting a wider audience.
A trailer for the play (badly filmed, and oddly chosen moments, so I don't think it does it justice, but worth a look anyway):
The cast talking about their characters, and generally being adorable:
Collaborators @ The Olivier Theatre
I saw this in the Cottesloe last year, and loved it to bits (it won my vote for best new play of 2011), and loved it just as much a second time around. Simon Russell Beale stole the show every time he was on stage, but Alex Jennings' performance was just as good, if less flashy. And there were no weak links in the supporting cast. I did worry that it'd suffer from the absence of Mark Addy as Vladimir, as he was one of the highlights first time around, but Lloyd Hutchinson was excellent.
eta: And, drum roll... We have a winner, thanks to marciaelena.
It's Lucas Grabeel! (Grabeel on the left, Jack Cameron on the right - see what I mean?!).
And while I'm thinking about The Custard Boys, super-quick reviews of the plays I've seen so far this month.
Written on the Heart @ The Duchess Theatre
Worthy, but dull. Too much clumsy exposition (a lot consisted of a serving maid asking a Bishop questions, and was hopelessly unbelievable), that still probably wasn't enough to make the play entirely accessible to anyone without a good background in the history of the translation of the Bible, but was boring for those familiar with the story.
Two Roses for Richard Third @ The Courtyard Theatre
When a play opens with a man in a boars head (Richard, Duke of Gloucester) watching the rest of the cast strip off and randomly swap clothes and swat at other clothes on a washing line above the stage, you can guess it's going to be a weird evening. Add to that five different actors and one actress playing King Richard, lots of aerial work, music, dancing and murders, and a scene where Edward IV breaks character and tells the audience that it's really hard to die on stage, and you end up with a bizarre, sometimes incomprehensible, sometimes fascinating production. Oh, and it was in Portugese, apart from Edward IV's aside to the audience, and a couple of other random moments. Yeah.
The Custard Boys @ The Tabard Theatre
I loved this! A group of sixteen year old boys (mostly evacuees) at school in Norfolk during World War II find their gang turned upside down when one of the boys is asked to look after an Austrian Jew, who he falls in love with. It was performed on a tiny stage, with clever use of minimal props to depict schoolrooms, a tree house, a bus, a beach and all the other locations. The young cast were all utterly convincing as the boys, and played the adults (parents and school teachers) cleverly as the sort of caricatures the boys would see them as. I really hope this play ends up getting a wider audience.
A trailer for the play (badly filmed, and oddly chosen moments, so I don't think it does it justice, but worth a look anyway):
Click to viewThe cast talking about their characters, and generally being adorable:
Collaborators @ The Olivier Theatre
I saw this in the Cottesloe last year, and loved it to bits (it won my vote for best new play of 2011), and loved it just as much a second time around. Simon Russell Beale stole the show every time he was on stage, but Alex Jennings' performance was just as good, if less flashy. And there were no weak links in the supporting cast. I did worry that it'd suffer from the absence of Mark Addy as Vladimir, as he was one of the highlights first time around, but Lloyd Hutchinson was excellent.