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Whale tale a real hoot
Spymonkey's Moby Dick Blackpool Grand Theatre
If you don't know your Pequod from your Peleg and still think Ishmael was just a Blackpool coffee company whereas Starbuck is a global one, don't worry – Spymonkey won't think any less of you.
Just as it wasn't required to pass a GCSE in Emily Bronte to appreciate the Lip Service Emily Bronte spoof Withering Heights or know the bard back to front to find the fun in the Reduced Shakespeare Company, so you don't need to have pored over Herman Melville's novel to laugh in all the right places at this irreverent rendition of Moby Dick.
Whether Meville ever expected his seminal work to now have a soundtrack including The Carpenters Close To You and Mike Batt's Bright Eyes is unlikely but he'd have probably been impressed by a Spanish Ishmael with an impenetrable accent and a German Queequeg who can't stand up for falling down.
Performed under the guise of the Compagnie Tony Parks (a thinly disguised Spymonkey co-founder Toby Park) it's a riotously funny romp performed by Tony/Toby, Aitor Basauri, Petra Massey and Stephan Kreiss with perfect comic timing and delightfully risqu moments.
Ps: Pequod is the whaling ship pursuing the elusive Moby Dick, Peleg is a retired Quaker whaler, Ishmael is the narrator and junior crew member, Starbuck is a global coffee brand (sorry, also first mate of the Pequod).
Catch it again tonight.
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