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Bubonic Play Holden Street Theatres Thurs 2 March Direct from the UK at the request of impresario Martha Lott of Holden Street Theatres, Piggy Nero's 'The Bubonic Play' is an hilarious pastiche of medieval stereotypes, 'The Canterbury Tales', a little Shakespeare and a smidgen of Haiku. A love triangle comprising George of Ponsonby, his gorgeous chore woman Mathilde, and a wandering minstrel first collide and then unite in a quest for a cure for the plague. While the plot is as simple as herpes, the action is a scream and the cast (Clare Thomson, Mat Baynton and Jamie Glassman) exude the delightfully infectious charming and cheeky pheromones. The fabric of the production included clever cloth sets, songs, puppets, and amazingly rubber faces that had me in stitches. Much of the action is bawdy and vulgar like you'd expect from some 14th Century rubes. Smoothly done after a year-and-a-half on the boards, this play is good medicine for what ails you. You'll die laughing.  |
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