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| Ducktastic | Ducktastic Theatre tickets from London Ticket Web | Ducktastic The team that brought you The Play What I Wrote (Sean Foley and Hamish McColl, aka The Right Size) now present the World premiere of their new comedy - the magic spectacular Ducktastic!, which transfers from Theatre Royal Newcastle. As always with their work, the plot is not straightforward, but it is inspired by the Las Vegas illusionists Siegfried and Roy, only on a more modest scale, using ducks instead of Siberian tigers. In Ducktastic!, world famous illusionist Christopher Ursula Sassoon who, after an accident with an emu, loses his license to perform in Las Vegas. He teams up with Roy de La Rue, a pet shop proprietor from Portsmouth, to form Sassoon and Roy and put on a great new show. | 
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Ducktastic
Albery Theatre
St Martins Lane London
WC2N 4AH
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Start Date: 11 October 2005
Booking Until: 19 November 2006
Running time: 2 hours 10 approx
Performances
Evenings: Monday - Saturday 8:15pm
Matinees: Wednesday + Saturday 3pm
Ticket Prices (Including VAT)
Stalls £53, £47, £38
Dress Circle £53, £48
Upper Circle £39, £32, £25
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| | What's New | Ducktastic a new West End show. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by David Pugh. |
| Theatre Review | Ducktastic Ducktastic! at The Albery Theatre has posted closing notices for 19 November 2005 Attempting to describe the plot is like trying to nail a blancmange to the wall but there is no doubt that Kenneth Branagh's production, packs a terrific comic punch. What begins as a send-up of naff showbiz excess, with the gaudiest costumes and silliest songs you are ever likely to encounter, is gradually transformed by some miraculous alchemy into something genuinely touching as well as funny, with love blossoming as in a Shakespearean comedy. Most conjuring shows seemed coldly manipulative and mechanical. In contrast, Ducktastic! creates a glow of communal pleasure you could warm your hands by.
The Daily Telegraph Ducktastic! satirizes the world of extravaganzas, while still entertaining us with seriously good magic tricks. So the desperate antics of the characters produce an absurd farce that both exposes the tackiness and celebrates the bravado of showbiz... The pleasure is the contrast between the anarchy on stage and the eye-popping sophistication of the tricks. The show has a genial air, the pratfalls and puns are in generous supply, and McColl and Foley are compelling and likeable performers. The joke feels overstretched, but it is hard to dislike a show that manages to be both wide-eyed and skeptical and that has such mad panache.
The Financial Times
This is a seductive send-up that makes you grin constantly for two hours
The London Evening Standard |
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