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To mark 10 years since the first Horrible Histories stage production, the Birmingham Stage Company has mined the Terry Deary canon and created two typically irreverent shows to tour for the next year. For the classicists, Ancient Greece gets the Horrible treatment. On home turf, the Incredible Invaders show covers British history over a period of 1,000 years leading to 1066.
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Both follow a tried and trusted formula, with in-your-face Bogglevision adding an extra dimension. The Groovy Greeks has Terry Deary directing proceedings as the voice of thunderclap-belting Zeus, teaching a hapless modern family the key points of Mycenaean culture. Ricocheting between the major events on the mythological and actual timeline: Theseus and the minotaur, the fall of Troy, Hippocratic beliefs about the four humours and the first Olympics. There’s time for daft jokes, impressive costume changes, bodily functions appallingly and squelchily amplified and a raucous version of Greece Has Got Talent – for the gods of Mount Olympus. Matthew Scott’s catchy tunes and Neal Foster’s funny lyrics showcase the impressive vocal range of Laura Dalgleish and Hannah Boyce as Athena and Aphrodite, contestants in the talent show. In fact the songs in this groovy production help it to hang together, as the links between ancient Greek totems and customs, and contemporary references, are laboured: the extended riff on the Homer/Simpsons connection being just one instance.
The Incredible Invaders format holds its shape more successfully. Hannah Boyce is the homespun ingenue Mavis, an ancient Briton dodging a life of slavery from invading Romans, Saxons and Vikings.
The audience responds to her rallying cries to repel the interlopers, which keeps the action on fast-forward. Ngs mouse drivers for mac download. As in pantomime, the Horrible Histories style is to parody popular televisual formats, but whether allusions to Grand Designs and Come Dine With Me mean anything to children is a moot point. Once again Dalgleish captures the attention with her mouthy Boudicca trouncing an amusingly bewildered Charlie Buckland as her Roman adversary. All four members of the cast do well to sync their pratfalls to the show’s repertoire of blood-curdling sound effects.
As well as the thicket of swords and spears on stage, used to menacing effect by the performers, both shows have the thrilling secret weapon of computer generated backdrops that create anything from the building of Hadrian’s Wall to the sacking of Troy in the blink of an eye. Coupled with the 3D glasses handed out in the interval, these slick digital designs ensure that the most Horrible aspects of the shows come right at you: blood splats, rabid dogs, severed limbs, venomous snakes and more, all seemingly within an inch of your nose keep the promise of this enduringly popular series to give us our ‘history with the nastiest bits left in’.