I went to see HumDrum perform Little Shop of Horrors in the New Theatre Royal yesterday evening.
It was a very good performance. The interesting things are the comparisons with MTSoc’s version they did last year. It was a much simpler set this time, which actually worked quite well, the cast was also smaller so they managed to do the crowd-type scenes without completely filling the stage to bursting point like MTSoc did. It was also interesting to see the effect of an older cast. The plant they had wasn’t anywhere near as good and the one MTSoc hired. To conclude what appears to have turned into a list rather than any kind of prose…
Humdrum always try to do small plays or slightly better known plays in interesting ways. This time they opted to turn the Ronnettes into Bag-ladies. This actually worked very well as it gave them a bit more individuality and added humour. I can’t think of a reason not to use bag-ladies and it worked very well indeed.
