Here is the kind of apprentice work which used to emerge from young college dramatic societies when life was younger and simpler. Written and directed by George Higgs, it seems to have remained largely inside his head, just as the three acting performances seem contained within the individual players, not really connecting to their movements, their gestures or each other. Even the lighting is gloomily eccentric and the piece is without a setting save for a rectangular platform and two large props - a large rubbish bin and the eponymous musical instrument, designed not to work - around which such action as there is revolves clumsily.
Mortimer Crompton (Herb Dade) and Dr Scrontium (John Jeffery Rolle) live in an alley to which wheelchair-bound Abigail Madigan (Margaret Hannon) lays propietorial claim and in which she proposes to build a museum to house the painterly works of one Roy G. Biv, who used to be a tenant in the house that was demolished to create the alley. It could be there is talent buried here which will emerge for the new millennium but, given the lack of dramatic focus, the lack of theatrical projection and a general lack of clarity of purpose, it is difficult to discern at the moment.
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