Ken Campbell's Old King Cole
From: Thursday, 25th November 2004
To: Sunday, 9 January 2005
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Our Review:
6 December 2004
The spirit of Ken Campbell’s bushy eyebrows hovers over Rebecca Gatward’s rip-roaring production. Anarchic, larger-than-life, wildly animated and just a little bit spiky, the gravel-voiced comedian’s most famous features have a lot in common with his play, updated since its first outing at Stoke-on-Trent in the late Sixties.
Remember the nursery rhyme about the merry old soul calling for his pipe, his bowl and his fiddlers three? OK, you can forget that. There is a fiddler mixed up in the mayhem, but he doesn’t actually play the violin (although, like everyone else, he fiddles quite a bit).
King Cole (Malcolm James) lives in Buckingham Palace with a consort named Brenda, played by Angela Bain in a neat hat and with a handbag clamped to her arm. Remind you of anyone? These two have a sweet but daffy daughter called, appropriately, Daphne, who is to be married off to the winner of a sporting contest between a dusty Elizabethan courtier called Baron Wadd (who may be ...
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