I'm an Aristocrat - Get Me Out of Here

Synopsis

Surreal swashbuckling comedy adventure Paris, 1792. Revolution grips the city and the secret police march traitors to their deaths. Paris needs a hero, someone who can deliver it from this terror and restore freedom and justice. Will such a hero emerge? Probably. With comedy and thrills galore you'll gasp, laugh and be amazed at the elaborate sword fights, the heart wrenching love scenes, and the sensational death-defying French accents.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 5 April 2012

Watching Abigail Anderson’s production of this lightweight romp put me in mind of those television series and films – think The Tudors or Marie Antoinette – which catch you up in a story of real historical events and people, but put a gloss on it that reflects away from reality. It also helps if you know your Scarlet Pimpernel, in any guise.

There are three performers, who also wrote the show with Anderson. Lauren Silver composed the catchy music – there’s a marvellous segue into “La Marseillaise” at one point – and plays the accordion . She is a Marie Antoinette with more than a touch of Sofia Coppola and Catherine Zeta-Jones about her. Mark Conway is a suitably bumbling and fumbling Louis XVI while Jonathan Peck revels in the part of the sadistic De Rien.

I won’t bother you with all the ins and outs and shake it all about of the plot. Suffice it to ...

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