In a festival that's short on new writing, the 5065 Lift in the Pleasance Courtyard has offered eight world premieres from up and coming writers - and eight very different theatrical experiences. Alison Carr's comedy may be daffy, but it is great fun, and it makes a virtue of its stuck-in-a-lift scenario.
The premise is simple: two fans at a Rocky Horror Show convention find themselves stuck in a cupboard while their heroine Patricia Quinn, best known as Magenta in Rocky Horror, is holding court upstairs. Will they get to meet her? Is that pair of signed boots a passport to a new life, or a fraud? Do dreams ever come true?
Do they heck! Carr's script is gloriously silly and the cast of five have as much fun as the audience - I particularly liked the Greek chorus that offers Quinn in all her incarnations, including that of bunny girl. This isn't going to bother the grey matter too much, but in a festival in the grip of celebrity fever, this ironic little satire sends up our obsession with the famous in the nicest possible way.
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