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Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut is a lovingly disrespectful homage to one of the classic films of all time. A �superb multi-tasking cast� whisk you back to Morocco 1941. Casablanca has some of the most iconic scenes and best lines ever written, so why not play it again? But this time in a tiny gin joint, with three actors.

Morag Fullarton�s fast paced distillation will have you raise a Bogart-style eyebrow, shed a Bergman- like tear and drown out the Nazis with a rousing chorus of the Marseillaise.

This fast-paced, action packed comedy, written and directed by award-winning director Morag Fullarton is a cleverly constructed tribute to the film. It stars the comic actor, Gavin Mitchell impersonating Humphrey Bogart playing Rick Blaine, alongside the amazing cast of Clare Waugh and Jimmy Chisholm.

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Our Review:

8 October 2012

We're a nation used to seeing classics fondly sent up. It�s probably something to do with the bit of our psyche which loves panto, Carry On films and why The 39 Steps has endured in the West End for years.

Billed as a �lovingly disrespectful homage� to that great love story from Hollywood, Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut does exactly that: seventy years on since the film was first released, Casablanca is ripe for a little ribbing.

Directed by Morag Fullarton a talented cast of three play all the roles between them, in a Stones in His Pockets, �deliberately change character on stage� sort of way.

Jimmy Chisholm is a gloriously camp Captain Renault and heroic Resistance leader Victor Laszlo while Clare Waugh is both the jut-jawed Nazi Major Strasser and Ingrid Bergman�s pouty heroine Ilsa Lund.

Her former lover-turned-cynic Rick Blaine is the excellent Gavin Mitchell � and he does a damn good Hum...

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