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Higgledy Piggledy Rumpelstiltskin The Trapeze Lounge Until Sun 14 March If you think it bizarre to be treated to a very shakily set up travel slide show by a tall, long nosed, helium voiced, fully fledged court jester, then just wait till you see where this show goes to from there. After the off the cuff display of happy snaps and scuttled narration that sees Rumpelstiltskin aka Jolly Goodfellow (his actual name, true!) in front of and around many of the world's best known landmarks and places of worship taken during his travels through near sixty countries (thirty-one of which he's performed in and several he's never allowed to return to), he then takes two suit cases and a big box and the real havoc begins. What follows is a literal grab bag of mayhem and silliness that's either going to make you laugh hysterically along with him or stupefy you with sheer disbelief. As a court jester, complete with the traditional patchy bell-ridden outfit and multi-pronged hat, Goodfellow's singular aim is to entertain by any abstract means possible, and by the very nature of his vocation he certainly takes the pratfalls well. Boasting a huge assortment of wind up, battery operated and rubbery toys, together with a very bad LP record collection as a soundtrack, these items are randomly swooped upon from either a unicycle or huge spring loaded shoes and at breakneck speed ceremoniously juggled and haphazardly discarded. This night there was nappy wearing armadillos, rubber brains, feather boas and the Bee Gees as well as some juggling of false teeth inside his mouth whilst on a pogo-stick. Taking time out from all this giddy physical buffoonery, there was also a very clever spoken section which included a hurried recital of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven using Spoonerism. 'Higgledy Piggledy', with all its madcap pandemonium, is a comically filled cacophony of sight and sound that will leave you both exhausted and reeling. |
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