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The Cabaret of Dr.Caligari by Alan Gilbey & Alan Ellis - Dr.Byron Caligari

- The London Bubble. Directed by Peter Rowe.

Eat your heart out, Jack Nicholson! I was born to play the Joker (and without the aid of prosthetics)! This was a real show, a wild rock & roll party based on the idea of those old Amicus films where a group of people end up stranded somewhere and are forced to relive episodes from the past (future?) with horrific endings, only to discover at the end of the film that Peter Cushing (for it is almost always he) is...DEATH!

Filtered through writer Alan Gilbey's warped mind, what emerged was this extravaganza - four of the nastiest types that inhabited London at the time (late 80s) - the vandal, the yuppie, the DJ and the Tory politician - were invited (gold-edged invitations) to a tent where Dr. Caligari sets the process in motion. Absurd special effects, over-the-top performances and some excellent high-octane rock music (from MD Alan Ellis) carried the thing along to the game-show finale where the audience could decide whether to 'free'em or fry'em'.

All huge fun, with some serious points to be made along the way.

Among the delightful 'come-uppances' - the vandal drowns in his own urine (in a lift - where else?), the yuppie has her filofax stolen and is forced to become a puppet enacting whatever the thief writes into it, the DJ's telephone call-in show goes disastrously wrong when a succession of callers from his past reveal his darkest secrets, and the Tory politician (fresh from cutting the Health Service) ends up as a victim of his own 'cuts' (the steaming, pulsing heart was a particular favourite with audiences!)

As usual with the Bubble, all of us played in the band as well as performing. Special mention must be made of my three lovely assistants, Snuff, Anthrax and Verucca (played by Mandy Lassalles, Jacqui James and Sheri Graubert), who somehow always managed to get that audience member to kiss the rotting skull!

"One of those rare occasions where some sharp politics are voiced within a highly entertaining framework"

"Dr Caligari...gamely played by Rod Stewart lookalike Jon Glentoran..."(!)