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By Steve Wilde

Don Leave Me This Way!
April 15, 2009

Just back from seeing Don John. Kneehigh Theatre's reworking of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Or Don Juan to you.

It's on at the Battersea Arts Centre until May 9th before it flies off to the USA so get along to see it quick. Unfortunately there were quite a few empty seats and as tickets are only £10 it's a great opportunity to acquaint yourself with some good theatre on the cheap. Get there early enough and you can order yourself some 70's grub as well. Black Forest gateaux, scampi and chips etc. The bar is reasonably priced too.

It's set in the UK during the miners strike and powercuts of the 70's with original music by the onstage band. The music evokes the period touching on punk, ska, dub as well as incorporating some originals by way of the picket line's transistor radio; and some Mozart too.

Some of the cast, Alan, Nobby and Derek mostly, appear to have taken the 70's thing to heart, slightly over-acting as if out of a sit-com of the time. At least I think that was the reason! Most of the set is made from transport containers, which could do with a bit of oil as the scene changes were a bit noisy! But maybe it gave it a sort of Crossroads feel. The lighting is impressive though, with a neon crucfix and mirror ball's amongst other things.

I've not seen anything else at BAC but the intimate size of the venue adds to this performance. The ensemble is quite big for such a performance, with the band onstage and the chorus/dancers, so they utilise the aisles as well. It gives the whole thing a bizarre church hall feel which works really well with few boundaries between cast and audience. In fact the audience get a chance to dance with the cast post "curtain call". Some of the above may sound critical but they aspects that I think all added to the show, whether the cast/crew intended them to or not!

John is played by Gisli Orn Gardarsson, who directed the Vesturport production of Metamorphosis that we saw at the Lyric last April. Carl Grose, who plays Alan, is also working with Vesturport, again along with Nick Cave, on a production of Faust that I look forward to seeing.

We popped into Sugar Cane before the show. A rum bar on Lavender Hill. It was quiet, being early on but there's a vast array of rum to be sampled! I had a Mongozo Coconut Beer first though, which is nice, but probably wrong and one is enough.

The food was good too. Jerk Chicken wings and barbecuded pineapple, bacon and cheese skewers. The wings are well worth the money, but they are a bit stingy with the bacon on the skewers. Actually three skewers is pretty stingy in itself.

Categories: London, Food & Drink, Theatre

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