The scene is set in the packed out bar at the foot of the Soho Theatre. A lone reporter struggles through the crowd towards Dominic Conway- Male Lead, Operation Greenfield...
The Prompt: Sorry to interrupt! (Interrupting) I’d just like to congratulate you on a fantastic performance...
D. Conway: Well thanks!
The Prompt: You wouldn’t mind awfully saying a few words for a fledgling theatre publication would you? (Sheepish)
D. Conway: Er... (Pauses to think) Blimey...
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Well Dominic, you successfully summed up Little Bulb’s latest offering in a single word; Operation Greenfield is simply astounding, and deserves all the accolades it has received from unanimously overwhelmed critics during its short residency at the Soho Theatre.
Let’s start with the venue itself- the Soho Theatre is the perfect setting for this intimate production: large enough for an audience capable of creating a ‘big-theatre’ atmosphere yet so personal that each and every viewer seems to become part of the action, and the proverbial ‘4th wall’ sets its foundations not at the front of the stage but at the very rear of the auditorium...
The performance space itself tells its own story. Little Bulb have managed to assemble a bizarre and eclectic range of props ranging from the daft to the antique, the guitar to the step-ladder, the bizarre to the outright-ridiculous.
This only adds to the surreal nature of the show; as four backwater bible-bashers grow from awkward Christian-Club-Kids to awkward Christian-folk-rockers right in-front of the audiences very eyes, they seem to journey through the recognized milestones of growing-up without ever really growing up at all. It struck The Prompt early on that at no point during the performance was any of the action at all cringe-worthy, as is the norm nowadays with teen-comedies such as The Inbetweeners, and the audience seemed to laugh with the characters on stage rather than at them- making for a refreshing, comfortable and highly enjoyable viewing experience.
One cannot bypass the immense musical talents of the cast, particularly Dominic/Daniel- whose guitar soloing has to be the product of literally YEARS of bedroom rocking (The Prompt knows about this. Trust.), and from the outset the group consistently broke into some fantastically crafted, genre spanning original compositions worthy of any respectable band.
All in all this show is simply sensational; fantastically acted and intelligently choreographed, whilst every scene is perfectly crafted in a fresh and wonderfully innovative manner. An all round success!
***** (Five stars issued by Mr T. Prompt.)
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