I wish I’d been a little more up for ‘Doom Riders’ with the start of the obligatory Fringe cold, feeling tired and not quite as much get up and go as usual. The small audience must have been of a similar frame of mind as the 4 Noels had to work hard to win us over. Once it got going however we warmed to the action and I actually left wanting to go through it all again. These three wonderful men play hundreds of characters in this gothic horror spoof, well they actually all play four or five parts. Each character sillier than the other and the amount of corpses on stage would have delighted the most bloodthirsty body-snatching comedians around. We were kept constantly changing our point of focus over and over, but not as many times or as frequently as they themselves. The writing if the performance displays flashes of genius alternated with insanity and each performance likewise. On second thoughts had the audience been totally up for the show and joining in I think the Assembly would have had to ship all the loonies to the asylum.

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