Trippplicate's TimeTrippers!
Two sisters who have recently inherited the power to ""timetrip"" spend the hour experimenting chaotically with this new-found ability
| 08 Aug 2007
This gleefully silly two-woman show is introduced as a beginners' guide to time-travel. Not a guide aimed at beginners, you understand, but a guide to time-travel written by beginners, specifically two sisters who have recently inherited the power to "timetrip". They spend the hour experimenting chaotically with this new-found ability, with bizarre and giggle-inducing results.
The girls are very much from the Marty McFly school of temporal tourism. They use their gift, not to exterminate Hitler or find out what Latin really sounded like, but to go back only a few years and revisit events from their own lives. Thus, one sister wants to turn around an unsuccessful bid that she made for an amazing pair of shoes on eBay, whilst the other prefers to have another look at a “red poo” that she did as a child after eating some beetroot.
Katie Lyons and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm make a great double act, with Lyons' short stature and impressive agility played off nicely against Lloyd Malcolm‘s bulkier, clumsier presence. The simmering sibling rivalry between the two characters is wonderfully exploited for laughs. We are also treated to a host of other well-sketched, colourful characters, introduced with a quick spin on the spot and the hasty adoption of a prop or wig. Highlights include Granddad Donny’s vigorous homosexual exploits during the First World War and a spectacular dance-off between Lyons' character and Jessica Gibbons. A daft early evening treat.
The girls are very much from the Marty McFly school of temporal tourism. They use their gift, not to exterminate Hitler or find out what Latin really sounded like, but to go back only a few years and revisit events from their own lives. Thus, one sister wants to turn around an unsuccessful bid that she made for an amazing pair of shoes on eBay, whilst the other prefers to have another look at a “red poo” that she did as a child after eating some beetroot.
Katie Lyons and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm make a great double act, with Lyons' short stature and impressive agility played off nicely against Lloyd Malcolm‘s bulkier, clumsier presence. The simmering sibling rivalry between the two characters is wonderfully exploited for laughs. We are also treated to a host of other well-sketched, colourful characters, introduced with a quick spin on the spot and the hasty adoption of a prop or wig. Highlights include Granddad Donny’s vigorous homosexual exploits during the First World War and a spectacular dance-off between Lyons' character and Jessica Gibbons. A daft early evening treat.