Mummy Mia, The Blakeney Players,Blakeney. July 2015.
As ever this review comes with the disclaimer that I know one of the cast and that I'm never going to be anything other than positive about the Blakeney Player.
This is a show that is totally impossible to review without you all thinking I've been indulging in illegal substances.
We opened with the music from the film Lawrence of Arabia and a sheikh staring into the desert distance as a pantomime camel appears on stage.
The next to appear on stage was explorer Gertrude Bell, the hieroglyphics expert Rosetta Stone and their colleagues Ray and a reluctant explorer, Livingstone.
Thanks to the magic of a cursed tomb we then slipped back in time to the reign of King Tut Tut and the invention of the pyramid. We visited the royal palace, a bazaar in Cairo and a camel race before ending up with the King from Memphis. There was also a dancing camel and an on-stage sand dance in the style of Wilson, Keppel and Betty.
You really had to be there but I can say that this is the most fun I have from curtain up to curtain down since the last Players' show!
The highlight of the show was the illusion dance (here's one I found on line but the Players' version was much better!) but from the dreadful puns to the grand finale this was a show that left us all with aching sides, big grins and a sense of wonder. I don't want to wish time away but I'm already looking forward to the Christmas show.
I'm not the only one to really enjoy the show - the EDP reviewed it very favourably too!
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