Get Aladdin
From: Friday, 7th December 2012
To: Sunday, 6 January 2013
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Synopsis
Street-thief Aladdin and his widowed (?single but experienced') mum flee their Chinese laundry in Clapham and stow away to the ancient, badly-researched Chinese province of Hao Hung, after they stumble upon a dangerous magic lamp. Pursued by the evil Abanazer and a hapless Scotland Yard detective on secondment from G4S they find themselves embroiled in a battle of love and wits with the Emperor, his gay hot-geek son, and a lascivious genie (you've got to rub her the right way).
Our Review:
14 December 2012
Above The Stag's Get Aladdin is unstoppably good, filthy fun.
The familiar eastern adventure is here transposed to the mythical and saucy province of Hao Hung, where Clapham commoners Aladdin (Greg Airey), Widow Twankey (Josh Rochford) and Wishy Washy (Lucy Gill) the botoxed monkey have set up shop, with a stolen lamp in tail.
Power-hungry Cockney villain Abanazer (Matthew Baldwin) lusts for the lamp's magic. And with no more need for convincing motivation than that we are launched into another round of festive theatre, set to the infallible formula of Christmas pantomime, which Above The Stag has been tailoring to adult audiences for the past three years.
Ensuing struggles for the lamp's genie powers thrust the protagonists into all manner of compromising positions. There's opportunity aplenty to send boos and hisses Abanazer 's way, and an obligatory spattering of people who need to know who's behind them. The script is sharp and topical, if a littl...
Creative
Jon Bradfield (Author)
Martin Hooper (Author)
Above the Stag Theatre (ATS) (Producer)
Andrew Beckett (Director)
David Shields (Design)
Richard Lambert (Lighting)
Richard Lambert (video) (Design)
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