Barbershopera II

Pleasance Dome    5 - 31 August @ 22.45    Barbershopera - Festival Highlights

This is a highly entertaining piece and is a superb vehicle for the talented company of three men and one woman to demonstrate great vocal ability and good comic acting. 

The cast play 8 characters between them, set in a Norfolk town where a barber has recently died and his estranged son, now a matador in Spain, returns and tries to save the town from losing its barber shop to the trendy unisex salon owned by Trevor Sorbet!  Yes, the plot is silly – adorably so – and the late night audience I the Pleasance Dome clearly relish every second of it!

The strength of the piece is the concise, witty lyrics: it would be impossible in the space here to be able to relate the whole plot as it is packed with character and incident.  The close harmonies achieved with only the occasional guidance from a recorder or whistle for pitch are a joy to listen to: balance is always precise, so that the ‘lead’ vocal is clearly heard above the vocal only musical accompaniment.

A late night delight in this year’s Fringe.