Mednick Live and Get By a musical comedy playing at the Lion Theatre Club, St John St. London N1 which is running until 1 May every night except Mondays at 8pm.
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escapes with probation It's a musical comedy which tells the story of how the three heroes, faced with a choice between the dole and a dead end job, take up a career in First they try shoplifting without success — a ' Tesco fiasco'. Next they and grab raid on and end up looting the The inevitable happens. They are with a stash of tinned whale's in the back seat of the ther di C getaway car. Steve and Jake are sent while Lin The comedy is provided by the contrast between this bungling small-time and an extravagant tantasy le Pians hatched in a haze of pernod and blackcurrant James Bond, or for astronauts from the 'Clapham Space Centre'.
Unwin of the Bristol Express Theatre Company, and the cast, Mednick, John Tramper and Billy Fellows, carry it off with style.
The pace starts fast and stays fast, Rick Lloyd's songs are powerful and the actors juggle their ditterent roles without ever losing a sense of commitment. ine produchon moves from pearing glib.
Be warned, — the 'writing on the wall' home to roost.
Running ing caves in on Steve. the reality finally collide.
play, their outgrown, kind of among the towers' When the speak the Bond and the astronauts. a moving upcidic it stages the as problems. more than sympathy.
Annabel light at the end of the tunnel' It similar theme in 'Oi for England.