In which there are Doctor Who, Jane Austen, and Jurassic Park... OT3!!1!!
- I saw the film Eddie the Eagle, which is less of a bio-pic of Mr Edwards (and the Winter Olympics) and more a formulaic inspirational sports comedy. I was glad they'd chosen to focus on their lead character's sporting achievements, which were conveyed very effectively through the script and also the action sequences, with comedy as light relief instead of the other way around (as in Cool Runnings). English film-making at its crowd-pleasing sub-Norman Wisdom best (physical comedy + sentimentality + social commentary = Norman Wisdom). (4/5)
- I attended Nonsense and Sensibility, a one act two-hander play by Tom Crawshaw and performed by Madeleine Gould and Leila Sykes. The set-up is Jane Austen meets Jurassic Park but the writing didn't quite pull it off, because it tried to jam too much action and dialogue into 45mins without enough meaningful substance. The style came across like rather average improv comedy. The actresses were enthusiastic but stepped on several of their own best comedy lines (i.e. the funniest dialogue shouldn't have been "and something to do with Mansfield Park") with some stumbling over words on occasions (but no mumbling). OTOH there were clouds of airborne talc and a working water pistol in use, so I'm prepared to make some allowances... especially due to the moment I was asked to hold up a cardboard cut-out dinosaur (a bright green sauropod). Pro critics gave it 2.5/5 and 2/5 and I couldn't argue for more than 3/5. [/v. srs bznz theatre review]
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