Look, I'll be honest. I'm not a big Punch and Judy fan. Never much cared for the puppets or their ongoing feuds and violence and nonsense. Never much got it, cared for it, understood why kids were ever riveted by it. So when I say this show had me GLUED TO MY SEAT--you should understood how BLOODY DAMN GOOD it is.
And bloody is EXACTLY the right word to use here. Some reviews I've seen for this show suggest a lack of blood. I disagree--I think there's quite a bit of blood. It's just tastefully and artfully done to create the exact amount of excess needed to get the point across. Is it buckets like a Saw movie? Of course not--but that kind of blood never has an impact anyway. A bat beaten over and over and coming up covered in gore, howeve...
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I am definitely going to see this again. If you are sensitive to violence, skip this show, because it is hard to watch at times. (but i loved it!)...
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A well crafted show that is comfortable being comically silly one moment and shockingly brutal the next, staged with skill and performed with gusto....
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