What have you done to our favourite film?
Wilton's Music Hall provides a strangely appropriate setting for Yippee Ki Yay
If this was just a touring production of one-man version of Die Hard (the first film in the franchise), written in rhyming couplets and ably acted with the assistance of teddy bears, two watches, some excellently simple sound and light effects and a lighter in 75 minutes (no interval), it would have been a good evening’s entertainment; but it was also a poignant and separate story of young love and potential loss (still in rhyming couplets) interwoven with the Die Hard plot.
Its author, and protagonist - Richard Marsh – first ran this, with great success, at Edinburgh last year.
Without ‘dead-ringing’ it, his Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman were believable delights and his not wholly uncritical understanding of plot failures in Die Hard add to the comedy of the event, which was blissfully funny.
This is a delight to watch, and the audience I was with were equally delighted. It’s run is in the link.