[theatre] Mitch Benn is the 37th Beatle - Arts Theatre, 7-Apr-14
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tamaranthIn which Mitch Benn is a complete fanboy (mostly the Beatles, but he managed to get in a couple of Doctor Who references) and also remarkably educational. Also, for a show he's performed quite a few times, it still feels fresh and spontaneous. (Reading a review of the show's debut at the Edinburgh Fringe last year made me realise how many off-the-cuff comments were scripted.)
My knowledge of the Beatles' catalogue is less than encyclopaedic, so I probably missed a lot of references. I did, however, get the joke about the whiteboard ('Beatles board') and am familiar enough with 'Tomorrow Never Knows' to be utterly fascinated by Mitch Benn's one-man recreation, with a digital recorder (iPhone?), of the various loops and beats involved.
Interesting asides about how Liverpudlian accents vary by gender; John and Paul as Cleese and Palin; the awfulness of Oasis; the various people who've been called 'the fifth Beatle' and how some are less wrong than others; and a fascinating set of Mitch Benn's Tenous Beatles Connections, culminating in an epic tale of love, loss and Pete Best.
Kudos, too, for never explicitly drawing our attention to the Sekrit Message on the whiteboard (replicated here using bold rather than green).
My knowledge of the Beatles' catalogue is less than encyclopaedic, so I probably missed a lot of references. I did, however, get the joke about the whiteboard ('Beatles board') and am familiar enough with 'Tomorrow Never Knows' to be utterly fascinated by Mitch Benn's one-man recreation, with a digital recorder (iPhone?), of the various loops and beats involved.
Interesting asides about how Liverpudlian accents vary by gender; John and Paul as Cleese and Palin; the awfulness of Oasis; the various people who've been called 'the fifth Beatle' and how some are less wrong than others; and a fascinating set of Mitch Benn's Tenous Beatles Connections, culminating in an epic tale of love, loss and Pete Best.
Kudos, too, for never explicitly drawing our attention to the Sekrit Message on the whiteboard (replicated here using bold rather than green).
