{"id":73683,"date":"2023-02-27T06:21:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/merboy-omnibus-theatre-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T06:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:21:23","slug":"merboy-omnibus-theatre-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/merboy-omnibus-theatre-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Merboy, Omnibus Theatre \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>A queer retelling of <em>The Little Mermaid, Merboy <\/em>doesn\u2019t actually do it for me on the Omnibus Theatre<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cMarooned out at sea<br \/>and the greedy moon is fat<br \/>Fed by the tide<br \/>to show far and wide<br \/>That I have grown\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, a queer retelling of Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s <em>The Little Mermaid <\/em>might work. Liam Sesay\u2019s <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.omnibus-clapham.org\/merboy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merboy<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a daring try, clearly personally felt in its sem-autobiographical nature, because it blends camp frivolity with altogether extra critical thematic leanings. But in its want to be so poetic, it finally ends up kinda lacking the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Repurposing the narrative to discover the sexual awakening of a mixed-race queer boy, there\u2019s a intentionally retro styling that folds in a soundtrack of Nineteen Sixties woman group songs. And via rhyming verse, storytelling and lip-syncing, racist and homophobic slurs sit alongside Merboy\u2019s journey of revelation in a considerably disjointed combine.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s clearly thought behind the work from director Scott Le Crass and motion director Carl Harrison to create an otherworldly vibe however the result&#8217;s that it&#8217;s too simple to really feel emotionally estranged. Production values are sturdy within the musical numbers however the retro vibe typically jars towards up to date cultural references.<\/p>\n<p>Kemi Clarke\u2019s Merboy elevates the work as he holds from the centre however there\u2019s a slight sense of chaos round him because the Greek Chorus of Ralph Bogard,\u00a0Yasmin Dawes and\u00a0Anthony Psaila multi-role as Seawitch, Mother and Sailor respectively. An idea in want of additional refining to essentially tempt us below the ocean.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#15567c\">Running time: 80 minutes (with out interval)<br \/>Photo: Claire Bilyard<br \/><em>Merboy <\/em>is reserving on the Omnibus Theatre till 4th March<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A queer retelling of The Little Mermaid, Merboy doesn\u2019t actually do it for me on the Omnibus Theatre \u201cMarooned out at seaand the greedy moon is fatFed by the tideto show far and wideThat I have grown\u201d On the face of it, a queer retelling of Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s The Little Mermaid might work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}