Kevin!!!!! – Forth at Pleasance Courtyard
Last year Recent Cutbacks gave me one of my picks of the Fringe. Fly, You Fools! was gloriously inventive, while Hold On To Your Butts proved equally adept at turning a much loved blockbuster into breathless, brilliantly silly theatre.
So, I arrived at KEVIN!!!!! expecting another hit.
Instead, they have given me Christmas in August.
This Home Alone parody may be described as something wildly different from the company’s other Fringe offerings, but there is an irony here. KEVIN!!!!! was originally developed around ten years ago and, having seen what Recent Cutbacks have subsequently become, this feels less like progression and more like a retro step too far.
The approach is predominantly puppet led, with handmade miniature s...