Review: Being Sellers

8.2/10

Shortest review ever. Just to say I went to see the show "Being Sellers" this Wednesday at the Waterloo East Theatre. The Theatre has literally been open 2 months. It was actually pretty nice, nice bar, nice staff and damn nice aero hot chocolate.

Being Sellers is a one man show about a guy acting essentially the life of Peter Sellers, one of our greatest comics. When walking in, the seats were on the stage, along with a restless actor in a hospital bed. Once up and running the show was pretty well put together. The solo actor had done pretty much everything from acting to directing and had taught drama in Australia for 2 decades so I knew experience was with us.

He pulled off some pretty brilliant impersonations of the great Sellers and the story was compelling. It was set in Seller's head during one of his serious heart attacks, or perhaps it was an interpretation after Sellers died of his final heart attack. Either way, the show was Seller's coming to terms with death, trying to fight his way out of purgatory and searching through his past to come up with the clues to escape. Of course this lead to all number of impressions which were very good indeed. My favourite of his works is the goons and the actor pulled off his goon show impression damn well considering he did the whole cast and the whole cast of the goons were brilliant actors in their own right.

The one qualm about the whole show was the noise. The theatre is literally just under Waterloo Station, one of, the busiest train stations in London. What sounded like 4 tracks were above the theatre, and the rumbles of trains passing overhead was pretty off putting. At one point I was trying to guess which train was coming next, as all 4 had varying pitches of noise. I also felt sorry for this obviously talented actor having to do emotional quiet scenes when the 9:15 to Chelmsford was moving just above us.

Still the show was good, the location was the only problem I had really. Cept for maybe when the actor did a falling scene and nearly crushed my feet!

Wow this review turned out to be long after all. Who knew. Not me that's who.
Tomorrow I'll do the last of the modern new stories about the Good Shoes who I saw this wed, as I'm knackered now.

Till then!