The Translucent Frogs of Quuup
From: Wednesday, 3rd November 2004
To: Sunday, 26 December 2004
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
1922. The Amazon. Two honeymooners canoe up river in search of adventure and the eponymous frogs. To their horror, they discover they re being narrated. Fast, irreverent, dazzling comedy with songs. You ll laugh, You ll cry, You ll leave.
Our Review:
15 November 2004
Just because The Translucent Frogs of Quuup won the Guardian's Best Original Musical Award on the Edinburgh Fringe this year doesn't mean to say it's any good. Too many average-to-inadequate shows get praised to high heaven during the annual Fringe frenzy, when theatre critics seem to either lose their marbles or get light-headed on the Edinburgh air and laugh hysterically at anything.
It's a shame because actors and producers then tend to get carried away and actually start believing the lazy superlatives heaped on them, as if cutting and pasting all the 'quotes' is preferable to actually working hard to really make the show work in every respect for a ticket-paying audience.
The Translucent Frogs of Quuup (apparently it's pronounced 'Kyoop' by Amazonian jungle dwellers in case you want to give it a try) is a good example of an unremarkable but basically quite feeble entertainment suffering from barking mad Fringe over-hype and th...
Creative
Chris Larner (Author)
Chris Larner (Director)
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