Category: Theatre Reviews

Tonight was the debut of Emmy rather than Oscar as the presenter. Emmy was played by Nancy Zamit.

The film was a “comedy” mystery set in a ballet school called What’s the Pointe. It included an unusual way to hail a taxi, and an underwhelming reveal.

Harry Kershaw got to show his full range of ballet and French. He played a ballet dancer with an odd relationship with his Mum while being in love with an American girl.

His mum is murdered, and it is investigated by a rougher version of the Scooby-Doo gang. It involved a chase scene that was funny despite the lack of the doors the suggestion requested.

It was fun, silly but not as joyful as Emmy wanted.

8/10

This was the sequel to the earlier pirate film Lookout. It included a recap/trailer from thee earlier film.

A few months had elapsed in the storyline before Lockdown 2: They Sphinx It’s All Over.

It included a brief send-up from the Handforth Parish Council meeting recently circulated on YouTube. It also had more ballet, chickens and a funny bit of confusion over hats and props.

8/10

This was the first part in the first-ever Sequel Sunday where they perform one movie and then later perform the sequel.

This was a very funny pirate movie, set on a ship called The Penguin Double Decker and the Movie was called Look Out! It included inappropriate upbeat music, a ballet dance and the Captain’s pet chicken called Mischief who he was very very fond of.

The captain was on a quest to find a magic memory-erasing amulet (which is according to the explanation given, apparently an important type if necklace) and his missing son. The latter was being raised on an island with 2 groups of ridiculous elder counsellors.

9/10

Tonight was a western zombie movie set in Edinburgh called Wild Feast.

It was a bit weird but there was some funny close-ups and problems with the cast knowing which camera was on them. There was also a Hamilton style rap musical number sing by zombies and some healing tickles.

6/10

Tonight was an escape movie set in Camelot Castle called The Quest for Escape A Lot. It included a farmer who bragged about his sheep and an inappropriate round of applause and an inappropriate product placement of a stairlift.

It had a man who usurped his brother and niece to take the throne. It included a funny slow-motion part about drinking mead which then went into fast forward. It then had a Shakespearean section.

7/10

Tonight it was a movie about a rock band making it big set in a lighthouse called Light Over the Rocks.

Included in the suggestions was a tweet from Chesney Hawkes asking for Chesney Hawkes puns.

The various songs were silly and funny.

7/10

This movie was a Disney movie set in a railway station called The Wizzard of Paddington Station

The hero Petunia was a magical girl, but her father was against magic, the baddie was a wizard who had minions who were talking train tickets, and the hero’s best friends were enchanted talking bins.

For most of the cast, it was their third show in 20 hours, but they all managed ok.

7/10

This was a musical heist movie set in a museum called Now Museum, Now You Don’t.

It had animal jewels and a lot of Dans in the group planning the heist and lasers that needed to be disabled.

It was very silly, mischievous and cheeky (not as family friendly as’Oscar’ wanted) but funny and well worth staying up late to watch.

It was very good when Oscar was forced I to a cameo and Garry Kershaw took on his traditional role.

9/10

Tonight was a superhero movie set in an aquarium called The Suicide Squid.

It included a man who worked at the aquarium who could talk to fishes, and his colleague who had run away from Newcastle for a mysterious reason. They used British accents rather than US ones which was a pleasant change.

Some dodgy blokes with dossier accents delivered a dangerous fish to the aquarium to try to destroy it by killing all the others and then killing all fishes and humans. The fish called the illusion fish gave one of the staff tentacle powers and could read minds

It also included hilariously crazy, and out of place musical interludes set in a pogo stick themed restaurant.

9/10

Things started going wrong before it even began with error messages about the live stream which delayed it for half an hour until 8pm, and further technical problems when they were interacting with the audience. – but if things didn’t go wrong it wouldn’t be Mischief Theatre!

It was an 80s musical, set in a library called Careless Whisper. It was very funny and silly escapism about a library and a mayor who wants to bulldoze it because she can’t read with some flying hats – one of which actually landed where it was meant to! It even managed to overrun from the normal length of just under an hour to just over 1hour 10 mins

9/10