I went to see this at the vancouver fringe, expecting a comedy, a parody. But you could count the number of jokes in the script on one hand.
Otherwise, it was a straight readers-digest-condensed re-enactment. The laughs only came from the visual, incredibly energetic, performance. But by halfway, I was bored senseless by this guy leaping about the stage. It was as dull as a room of devout monty python fans reciting "holy grail".
The actor was great, energetic, excellent voice and accents. No amplifier used (or needed) in the small theatre. But the script, or lack of it, is only for serious star-wars fans, or lovers of pure visual gags. There was so much opportunity for parody that went totally wasted. It was almost reverent, as if parody would be sacrilege.
OK, the majority of the audience loved it, just be warned.
My pick of the festival: "Toothpaste and cigars" - utterly brilliant. Co-written by the director of "one man star wars t.", BTW.
Linux.conf.au in Perth has just finished and was a great success.
Attendees included Linus, Alan Cox, Rusty, Tridge, HPA, Rasmus, Bdale and some guy called Hemos.
Who would choose wintery New York? A bunch of suits, I guess. Not one suit in sight at LCA.
A big congrats to the organisers.
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I went to see this at the vancouver fringe, expecting a comedy, a parody. But you could count the number of jokes in the script on one hand.
Otherwise, it was a straight readers-digest-condensed re-enactment. The laughs only came from the visual, incredibly energetic, performance. But by halfway, I was bored senseless by this guy leaping about the stage. It was as dull as a room of devout monty python fans reciting "holy grail".
The actor was great, energetic, excellent voice and accents. No amplifier used (or needed) in the small theatre. But the script, or lack of it, is only for serious star-wars fans, or lovers of pure visual gags. There was so much opportunity for parody that went totally wasted. It was almost reverent, as if parody would be sacrilege.
OK, the majority of the audience loved it, just
be warned.
My pick of the festival: "Toothpaste and cigars" - utterly brilliant. Co-written by the director of "one man star wars t.", BTW.
a 1979 TI-25 calculator, still used often.
And I'm sure a few of us still have old ISA VGA cards running in servers.
Linux.conf.au in Perth has just finished and was a great success. Attendees included Linus, Alan Cox, Rusty, Tridge, HPA, Rasmus, Bdale and some guy called Hemos.
Who would choose wintery New York? A bunch of suits, I guess. Not one suit in sight at LCA. A big congrats to the organisers.