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HAODS are spaced out in latest offering Article from http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=683660
HAODS’ Return To The Forbidden Planet, playing at The Kenton Theatre
until Saturday, is great fun — two hours of pure escapism to a galaxy
far, far away.
The cast delivered some stellar comedy moments with Joshua Young keeping the chuckles coming with his cartoonish, Popeye Captain Tempest, Phil Couch as a wonderfully camp Bosun Arras and Karen Hemingway showing great comedic timing as Ariel the Robot. It must be harder than she made it look to stay in character as a robot, especially when you’re singing and dancing, and she gave a mesmerising performance of Who’s Sorry Now. The almost non-stop music is the backbone of Return To The Forbidden Planet and the band, under the direction of Ian Head, didn’t disappoint as they treated us to hit after hit from the Fifties and Sixties and the cast delivered some fine vocals too. Johnpaul Maillard excelled as the love struck Cookie, with his voice meltingly smooth for Only the Lonely and packing a punch leading a belting rendition of Ain’t Gonna Wash For A Week that really saw the cast hit their stride. Claire Wallis, as the starship’s science officer and wicked wife of Dr Prospero, showed a gutsy powerful voice for It’s A Man’s World but softly soulful for Go Now, while Lucy Potter’s clear melodic tones, as Miranda, suited the wistful Teenager In Love perfectly. It’s camp, it’s funny, it’s energetic, it’s packed with fab music and it’s entertaining. And it’s certainly a great way to forget planet reality for a couple of hours and have a damn good laugh instead. Rebecca Hill
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