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The Goes Wrong Show: The Nativity. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Charlie Russell, Dave Hearn, Bryony Corrigan, Nancy Zamit, Greg Tannahill, Chris Leask.

In extraordinary times we are shown the way forward, or at least the way to continue what we do best with alterations to the way we produce it.

One of the television comedy hits of 2020 has surely to be the team behind The Goes Wrong Show, a team honed by theatre, and offered to a larger audience in the same time-led fashion that saw some of the greatest stars of vaudeville become legends of early cinema, and to whom the slapstick mayhem is as every bit as demanding and superbly presented as anything you would want to watch today.

The Goes Wrong Show: The Nativity. Television Review. full post

(472 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

The Goes Wrong Show: Harper’s Locket. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Bryony Corrigan, Dave Hearn, Chris Leask, Henry Lewis, Charlie Russell, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Zamit.

Croquet, in the words of Progressive Rock legend Peter Gabriel, “Is a particularly vicious sport” and as the mallet falls through the air and crashes into the head of the family maid, Mrs Hargreaves, one cannot but fail to appreciate just how the team behind The Goes Wrong Show have become, in one short season on television, the theatre team that have conquered the stage and the cameras with apparent ease.

The Goes Wrong Show: Harper’s Locket. Television Review. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)