Fitzrovia Radio Hour

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Michael Coveney - 14 January 2011

Following the spate of Round the Horne “live recording” radio shows, The Fitzrovia Radio Hour seems a little "yesterday" in giving a theatrical dimension to funny voices and sound effects performed in a sort of stealthy conspiracy with the audience while the red light shines.

The show follows the separately ticketed Barbershopera: Apocalypse? No! in the smaller of the Trafalgar Studios (though you can double up if you want to) and, running at eighty minutes, rather begins to outstay its welcome, which was only lukewarm to start with.

The brilliant thing to be done here would be an inner play among the protagonists while they perform the "outer show" and, while there are hints this might be about to happen, it never does.

Also, the three stories performed by old-fashioned BBC rep actors speaking like John Mills and Margaret Lockwood are divided by advertisements for medical pick-me-ups, a feature of American radio...

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James - 31 January 2011:

Saw this tonight and thought it was fantastic!...

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