No Idea

Synopsis

This is Rachael and Lisa. Take a look. A good look. Imagine they approached you in a pub or a shopping centre or the foyer of a theatre and said, "If we were in a show - what kind of show would it be? What characters would we play? What would the story be?" What do you think you would say? Maybe they did ask you. Maybe you told them. Maybe they thought it was great and that is what the show will be about tonight.

Our Review:

23 July 2010

With a pop up hat, waistcoat and knowingly jaunty wink, Lisa Hammond dances around the stage belting out the annoyingly catchy lyrics to "Cheeky Face".

It’s a Dickensian song and dance number and a direct response to people’s attitudes towards Hammond as a disabled and restricted growth actor. Wacky and at points hilarious, "Cheeky Face" is the perfect marker of a show which explores attitudes towards disability whilst being steeped in Hammond and friend and collaborator Rachel Spence’s dry humour.

With a desire to work together on a show but a drought of inspiration, Hammond and Spence asked the general public what kind of play they would put them in. The answers, here mimicked with magnificent comic flare by the two whilst listening to the actual interviews on iPods, form the basis of No Idea – an exploration of both disability and friendship.

Directed and co-devised by Improbable’s Lee Simpson, the result is a rich ...

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Latest User Review

I.B. - 24 July 2010:

Fantastic. Completely original. Impossible to classify. I was invited by a friend and dutifully attended with an open mind but absolutely no idea what I was in for. 30 seconds in and I wondered what the hell I had done... 5 minutes in and I was completely transfixed. I laughed for pretty much the remainder of the show. Genius. Please go and see this play. If only to experience the comic joy of "Cheeky Face" (Warning: you WILL find yourself singing it the next day in public... [well, at least I did.]) I personally have never written a review for anything I've been to see in London but I was so pleasantly surprised by this performance that I felt the least I could do was take 5 minutes to spread the word. Go catch it before it's gone....

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