Barrie arranged tickets for a group of us to go and see the Cambridge Footlights Spring Revue: People Watching. We had a few drinks to get us in the mood, and the atmosphere in the theatre was buzzing. The five cast were good—Will Seaward as an Angel was magnificent and I enjoyed Adam Lawrence’s animated jiggling style, which was very different from What’s Wrong with Angry! The writing wasn’t great—nothing edgy, no barbs, no politics, all quite gentle. A bit too much reliance on shock-words, which bordered on the distasteful. The unscripted errors with the curtain and one of the cast having a fir of giggles were high points. I did like the sketch about making a fishing documentary—where the movie exec was keen to have beautiful mermaids—with legs (and wanted an action thriller rather than a documentary)! Adam Lawrence in a yellow parker was slow motion fishing with his net when he was attached by the two leggy mermaids, slapping him around the face with fish, then Will Seaward entered with a fish mask on, semi naked, and shot him! It was great. There were some genuine laughs, and the Apocalypse theme worked well. Quite a few of the sketches didn’t deliver at the very end—the duck sketch was a great lead up, but failed to follow through.
Cast (from CAMDRAM) Tamara Astor, James Moran, Adam Lawrence, Rachel Scrivener, Will Seaward, Jacob Sharpe
From the ADC Theatre web site: Footlights Spring Revue: People Watching by Ben Ashenden, Mark Fiddaman and Alex Owen
The Heavens have been watching us. God isn’t happy. In fact, he’s so completely fed up that he’s decided enough is enough. Welcome to the sketch show that marries certain doom with reckless levels of funny.
The world-famous student comedy club brings you one of its’ biggest shows of the year. The Footlights Spring Revue is one of the most exciting and eagerly anticipated comedy events in Cambridge. It has sold out for the last four years in a row, and People Watching promises to be another smash hit.
All performances of People Watching are now sold out. A limited number of tickets may be available in the box office just before the start of each performance.
Replaced our cracked and leaking terracotta pot this morning with a new stone fountain. It weighs a lot—took three of us to get the base into the car and the shell at the top weighs about 15kg. The main work was wiring the pump, so that it went through the base of the water dish, and rather than go back to the junction box and rewire that, I bought an underwater connector and connected the pump inside the dish. It worked pretty well. Getting the water from the pump to the shell was okay once the PVC tubing had been boiled for a few minutes. I’ve got a bit of tweaking to do now to increase the flow—in the summer.
The fish have lost out. The previous pot was much larger and they’re now down to a few inches of water and swimming round and round in circles. I think they better go to a friend’s pond before the summer. I can see this whole thing drying out if left for a few days.
Raced through Monkey, or better known as Journey to the West. Motivated by memories of the amazing BBC series in the ’70s (mind you the picture below doesn’t quite live up to those memories—what a sad looking bunch).
The book is a great page turned, full of humour and a straightforward plot. A good understanding of Taoism and Buddhism would have helped my understanding. The tale as a whole made sense—never got a feel for that from the TV series. Also, the Heavenly Peach Banquet was fantastic.
