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Thursday <strong>August</strong> 3 <strong>2017</strong> 31<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre/Arts<br />
West End actor tells deportation story<br />
Deported written by Nic Kyle<br />
Coffin written by Elliott Langsdon<br />
Christ’s College Old Boys’ <strong>The</strong>atre<br />
Reviewed by Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding<br />
HAVING A home-grown performer<br />
make a successful career on London’s<br />
West End is no doubt a rarity.<br />
And when Nic Kyle puts on an original<br />
one-man show and premiers a West End<br />
show for the first time in the country,<br />
how could any theatre-enthusiast not<br />
want to go?<br />
Yet, unfortunately, Kyle’s performance<br />
attracted a tiny audience on Saturday.<br />
No surprises in a rugby-mad country –<br />
the Crusaders v Chiefs semi-final clearly<br />
won out over Kyle’s slick, hilarious show.<br />
Although no one really showed up to<br />
that either, so I guess everyone decided<br />
to stay home on what was a cold winter<br />
night.<br />
But the small audience wouldn’t have<br />
discouraged Kyle after the trials and<br />
tribulations he has been through during<br />
his four-year stint in London. And the<br />
performance about his overseas experience<br />
was spectacular.<br />
Having little money, facing endless auditions<br />
in front of often unfriendly panels<br />
and getting deported from the United<br />
Kingdom made perfect content for Kyle’s<br />
original one-man show, Deported.<br />
Accompanied by Richard Marrett on<br />
the piano, Kyle sings and narrates his<br />
hilarious tales which include demanding<br />
the attention of a disinterested Game of<br />
Thrones cast by telling them to put their<br />
hands on their heads.<br />
When you hear Kyle sing, you can<br />
understand why he stood a better chance<br />
than most of having a crack at success on<br />
the West End.<br />
Having a strong, crystalline voice, each<br />
song Kyle sung in relevance to his story<br />
in London was a treat to hear.<br />
I was only surprised Kyle didn’t give<br />
more reason during his performance as<br />
to why he was deported from the United<br />
Kingdom, especially considering it was<br />
what the show was named after.<br />
<strong>The</strong> second half of the show, writer Elliott<br />
Langsdon’s dark comedy Coffin, was<br />
absolute gold.<br />
Audiences were lucky to be the first<br />
in the country to see it after a sell-out<br />
season in London.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most inappropriate and rudest<br />
jokes come out in the show about three<br />
argumentative brothers waiting for their<br />
father’s funeral to begin.<br />
However, you’d have to be cursed with<br />
no sense of humour to not find the show<br />
funny.<br />
Punch-ups, jokes about each others<br />
love life and endless insults make for<br />
non-stop laughter. None are appropriate<br />
to share in this forum but don’t let that<br />
put you off.<br />
Kyle, along with Christchurch performers<br />
Matt Hudson and Jack Marshall,<br />
each brought their own strengths to the<br />
show.<br />
A combination of Kyle as the painfully<br />
annoying brother, along with Hudson’s<br />
poncey persona and Marshall’s pushover<br />
character, had the audience screaming<br />
with laughter.<br />
One can only pray this show comes<br />
back to the city again, because it is the<br />
funniest production I’ve ever seen.<br />
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Kyle (far left)<br />
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Jack Marshall<br />
and Matt<br />
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