Dave Williams has given up on Dave Williams. Instead he has become Troy Orbison. Nobody loves Dave Williams, not the wife who divorced him nor the daughter he deserted. Everyone loves Troy, though. When Dave is on stage as Troy singing Pretty Woman he can feel the love. So much so that now he goes everywhere in a black wig and glasses.
Pip Utton has produced some terrific Edinburgh shows including both Adolf and Resolution, which cleverly played cat-and-mouse with the audience's emotions. But he doesn't quite pull of this bittersweet tale of a lookalike tribute singer down on his uppers. There are some good things here, including a royal variety performance in which five Michael Jacksons and a dozen Elvis Presleys play before a lookalike royal family in a show hosted by a lookalike Terry Wogan.
But this is just a good idea rather than a fully developed theatre piece. The different elements - Dave's personal story and meditation on a world where we would prefer to be someone else - are never explored in any depth and never really tie up. Most disappointingly, Utton fails to capitalise on the intricately layered relationship with an audience who have come to see a show about a tribute singer, but find themselves tapping their feet along to Roy Orbison classics. Not bad, just not up to usual standards.
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