Is That A Whip In Your Hand?
'Indiana Jones' meets ‘National Treasure’ meets ‘Romancing The Stone’ meets…. you get the idea…
2024 has already seen Harrison Ford receive the Critics Choice Award for ‘Career Achievement’… for a lifelong contribution to film, and perhaps his greatest character creation - Indiana Jones.
It’s also the 40th anniversary of fortune hunting film ‘Romancing The Stone’ and the 20th anniversary of ‘National Treasure’, starring Nicholas Cage, both of which spawned sequels.
It’s time therefore for Gavin Robertson, in his follow-up to BOND- AN UNAUTHORISED PARODY, to spoof this genre of fortune-hunting movies that have proved so popular with fans worldwide - Solo!
Featuring the usual mix of clues, maps, travel and tricky situations, it’s familiar comic territory, as our hero searches for treasure via Columbia and Greece, evading Nazis and attempting to rescue his Dad! All to a cinematic soundtrack... planes, submarines and airships...
Gavin Robertson brings his signature cartoon-style treatment to the stage, exploding every cliché in the book (or movies) with unique comic results!
Precise minimum staging, maximum effect.
Family-friendly, light-hearted, witty, inventive and well-observed.
Pictures by Peter Mould
Directed by Nicholas Collett