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Morecambe and Wise. complete with the mystery ngebrjfglh$aga I gues‘ 5‘3' (recent 23-sm 25 ‘oa. and examples have included touring Nigel Havers and Anthea Turner). the . ' . .' 2 : - ; performance of the :-' - -.’ ' 2 dreadful play. and even 2. the bed scene, which " seemed miraculously : free of gay subtext in the 705. Along with Joe Alessi and Toby Sedgewick, Keaton i ' has been acclaimed : - ' since he took over the show from its original Right Size cast, so we needn‘t feel we‘re getting Danni " instead of Kylie. But does such ' a long-running success lose its freshness after a while? ‘Well, :' : people go along and expect no, that‘s the great thing about ' nostalgia, but because it came from it,‘ says Keaton. ‘Sometimes ' the Right Size, it's everything turned doing a show like this, you can completely on its head,‘ explains One of them wants to do a Marx get bored, but because the show 1' z" 1 : ' Ben Keaton, who plays the Ernie Brothers play, one doesn‘t want to changes with the special guests, ‘ ' ' ' Wise, but not, character. ‘They didn't do it, and instead he writes a crap there's new material all the time, so u . . : -.' i want to do a show about play called A Tight Squeeze for the you have new challenges all the ' .’ " '- ' " Morecambe and Wise, so it’s Scarlet Pimple.’ time.‘ Nostalgic or not, it's well x ' - '- r" w : .: different. There's this double act. It seems the rest of the show worth a watch. (Steve Cramer) ' " ' ' ' ' 4
Nostalgia is a peculiar emotion. You can feel nostalgic for periods you didn‘t experience. A 20-year-old is as liable to get misty eyed about some 605 period piece as a person of 60. Each of them fictionalises the period in their mind, regardless of whether they were there. Hamish McColl and Sean
Foley, better known as surrealist comic duo the Right Size, seem to be aware of this, and play a peculiar game with this emotion in their Olivier award- winning comedy.
It’s not that the pair at the centre are that ultimate comedy nostalgia duo, Morecambe and Wise, but they’re just very like them. ‘A lot of
NEW PLAY DIDN’T DIE Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 30 Oct—Sat 1 Nov
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