Die On Your Feet - by Greg Fleet

Another comedy Festival offering. This one by Greg Fleet, is about a group of comedians and their relationships off stage. The backstage dialog was intermingled with monologues by the comedians in their "real work".

The monologues were very good - the backstage dialog did not gel.

The idea for the show was geat, it's a pity it didn't work. Another problem the show had was the venue. It was staged in a long, thin room somewhere along a corridor in the Town Hall. Those of us somewhere down the back - in fact, those of us who weren't in the first few rows, really struggled to see - even tall people were stretching and shuffling back and forward. The stage was pretty bare (I think) - and a lot of the action took place with the actors sitting around on chairs chatting. In this venue they really should have just stood up so we could see. There was no set that we needed to worry about.

A great comedy idea, but some lack of experience in staging showed through.