Review of UoN Fringe 2019: Mein Hodenkrebs by Light in the Dark Theatre Company at The Platform Club, Northampton
Having seen in excess of 70 University shows through Flash and this new breed, the Fringe, I have to say that I have enjoyed enough of all but one of them, to make them worthwhile, and to judge them a success, even if just one for ambition. Mein Hodenkrebs from Light in the Dark Theatre Company is a struggle though, but it does show immense promise at times, but unfortunately, that is mostly all on the big screen. Mein Hodenkrebs means My Testicular Cancer and is a comedy set in the body of Zak, a student whose world turns upside down with the news that cancer is riddling his body. That cancer here manifests itself in this play in a series of bizarre attempts to create political satire as characters like Boris and Theresa battle it out in Zak's body. Some of it works, the rectum scene, for instance, most of it feels hard work to watch, and irrelevant to the show. Our performers. Ben Loftus, David Wallace, Giacomo Galbiati and Kyle Lawson are good enough, throwing themselves i...