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Kryten Play in Oz!

A piccy of Kryten. WHAT A RUBBISH MASK. IT SPOILS THE WHOLE PROGRAMME.What have we here? The Blak Yak Theatre in Perth, Australia, are staging a production of the original Series 2 episode Kryten, that's what. Details are as follows:

Dates: March 17th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 26th, 27th, 31st, and April 2nd, 3rd.
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Venue: Kalamunda Performing Arts Centre, Canning Rd (next to the High School), Kalamunda WA

This follows on from their first Dwarf production in October 2002 (presumably, an adaptation of The End). The cast is: Nick Donald as Dave Lister (who also wrote the adaptation; of the original script "by Doug Naylor & Rob Grant" apparently), Alex Jones as Arnold J. Rimmer, Chris Thomas as Cat, Jarrod Buttery as Holly, and Scott Northover as Kryten; and it's directed by Tim Edwards.

Sounds like it could be a fun night out; and at least slightly better than my re-enactment of the Chicken Merango scene I did in front of my WHOLE YEAR when I was 13 (with plenty of Howling Cat Sounds). Anyone here who lives in Australia going? Incidentally, the same team have also done an adaptation of Men Behaving Badly (at the bottom of the page). Nice. There's more about this "young and vibrant community theatre" on their website.

Comments

The chap who is playing Holly has got an excellent name.

I've suggested to them that they video the production and sell copies over the internet. I'd buy it.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 28, 2004 09:25 PM

As would I.

Posted by Cappsy at January 28, 2004 09:44 PM

So if the guy who's playing Holly got replaced at the last minute, the audience could all shout when the new actor comes on, 'I can't believe it's not Buttery!'
Or something.

Posted by Sparky at January 28, 2004 10:17 PM

Excellent.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 28, 2004 10:25 PM

Sparky you are quite obviously a comic Jedi and will bring balance to the force. Or something.

Posted by Cappsy at January 28, 2004 10:35 PM

Perhaps, they could put on a show for the real cast when they arrive in Oz for filming...

Posted by Cpt-D at January 28, 2004 10:42 PM

Damn this country being so large, if only Perth wasn't a few days drive away it would be tempting to go see.

Posted by Adam Bailey at January 29, 2004 01:12 PM

I'm personally more pleased that someone had the fantastic idea of staging MBB's 'Watching TV' as a play. Especially as it contains the best MBB scene ever ("Milk - the final frontier").

I don't know how stage-friendly 'Kryten' is, but good luck to em.

Posted by Darrell Jones at January 29, 2004 04:05 PM

Marooned would be the obvious choice, if it wasn't for the big crash. And Duct Soup would be good, if it wasn't SHIT.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 29, 2004 04:08 PM

When some people staged some missing Doctor Who serials a couple of years ago, they recorded VT inserts and projected them in live. Perhaps they could do that?

Posted by Darrell Jones at January 29, 2004 04:24 PM

They might do Marooned next, you know. First what I presume to be The End, then Kryten... Mind you, it wouldn't be the best episode to do if you want something with all the characters in.

I THINK BACKWARDS WOULD BE THE PERFECT CHOICE.

Posted by John Hoare at January 29, 2004 04:31 PM

Don't be daft. It'll be Bodyswap.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 29, 2004 06:12 PM

You're all wrong. It'll be Smeg Outs in its entirety.

Posted by Darrell Jones at January 29, 2004 07:05 PM

No, no, no. It'll be the A-Z. They'll have three people pretending to be Eternal, a faux Stephen Hawking and a mock Richard "High H" morris dancing. They've already got beardy blokes to play Noel Edmonds and Garry "Cunt" Bushell.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 29, 2004 07:34 PM

No, it'll be the entire rushes for Demons & Angels.

Posted by John Hoare at January 29, 2004 08:28 PM

No, it will be the "Drunk" featurette, with each actor changing their costume, props and position every three seconds.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 29, 2004 08:30 PM

I once tried to get my mates together to film some scenes from The End. Apathy won over, in the end.

Posted by Cappsy at January 29, 2004 09:54 PM

How about 'Backwards' being performed on one half of the stage and 'Backwards Forwards' on the other half. With an additional performance of the cast commentary over the top of it.

Sounds about right to me.

Posted by Darrell Jones at January 29, 2004 09:56 PM

No, it should be The End Re-Mastered. Each audience member will have one eye removed, so they see the film effect. There will be a bloke on the side of the stage making silly sound effects, and a court-room artist will provide visual effects. And there'll be someone on hand to tell the actors to shut up half way through a scene.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 29, 2004 10:04 PM

And someone running past with a cardboard skutter, obviously.

Posted by John Hoare at January 29, 2004 10:10 PM

Everyone will sort of have to squint a bit to make it "widescreeen".

Posted by Darrell Jones at January 29, 2004 10:26 PM

And then be pissed on from above, so their enjoyment is ruined just that little bit more.

Posted by Pete Martin at January 29, 2004 10:56 PM

Speaking of re-mastered, did anyone else notice the new mix they used for the 'confusion' scene at the end of Stasis Leak? The cat says:

"I don't care how I get paid...Dollar Pounds"

At least that's what i made out. Very bizarre.

Posted by Cappsy at January 30, 2004 08:38 AM

It's strange...But as someone who paid horrendous amounts of money for the pieces of poo that were the Red Dwarf Survival Guide, the Red Dwarf Diary and the Red Dwarf Bog roll, I think I've seen all of two Remastered Episodes.

Posted by Pete Martin at January 30, 2004 12:26 PM

For the sake of completeness (and the fact i actually like the artwork on the covers) I bought the set and have watched them a couple of times.

Posted by Cappsy at January 30, 2004 04:07 PM

I've watched them more times than I'd be willing to admit. Purely for research purposes, of course.

Posted by Ian Symes at January 30, 2004 08:43 PM

They've already done Marooned - they did it as a one-act play in 1999 at KADS Theatre, as a two-hander, with just Rimmer, Lister and Holly.

Posted by Tom at February 10, 2004 07:21 AM

I think you'll find the adaptation from 2002 was a mix of The End, Balance of Power and Confidence & Paranoia.

The 2004 one is a mix of Kryten, White Hole and Last Day.

Posted by Greg at February 13, 2004 06:28 AM

Why did they do an adaptation of the three least good series 1 episodes?

Posted by Darrell Jones at February 13, 2004 02:37 PM

Probably because they're the easiest to do. Can you imagine trying to do Future Echoes or Me2 on stage?

Posted by John Hoare at February 13, 2004 06:12 PM

I suppose so, but I'd choose Waiting for God over Confidence and Paranoia. 'Cos it's the second best series 1 episode.

I think you *could* adapt Future Echoes for the stage, actually. Change the elderly Lister into an echoey pre-recorded voice and the rest is easy, surely?

Posted by Darrell Jones at February 13, 2004 07:02 PM

You'd have to get Rimmer to enter stage left at exactly the same moment he exits stage right, though.

Posted by Ian Symes at February 13, 2004 07:50 PM

Then there's the mirror effects, which would be impossible.

Posted by Ian Symes at February 13, 2004 07:51 PM

Oh yeah.

Not thinking things through, there.

Posted by Darrell Jones at February 13, 2004 07:53 PM

Thinking about it, how many episodes could one do on stage easily? Anything with time dilation is out, it'd be far too difficult to have any "monsters" and you can't have any alternate personalities. That leaves about five episodes, one of which is Duct Pissing Soup.

Posted by Ian Symes at February 13, 2004 08:05 PM

Ah, thank you for the image of a duck literally pissing soup.

Posted by Darrell Jones at February 13, 2004 09:40 PM

re: Future Echoes adaptation...

Twins.

They did it in Jim Davidson's Aladdin panto ;)

Posted by Joey at February 14, 2004 05:39 PM

I did marooned in 1999. Small cast. I cut out Kryten and Cat. Used an old telly for Holly.
Used corned beef for dog food.

It was all good. :)

Tim Edwards

Posted by Tim Edwards at February 27, 2004 11:30 AM

I never thought of cardboard skutters.

Posted by Tim Edwards at February 27, 2004 11:34 AM

Sorry Tom. I'm just skipping through the posts

Posted by Tim Edwards at February 27, 2004 11:36 AM

A press release:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40406358%241%40usenet.per.paradox.net.au&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

Posted by John Hoare at February 28, 2004 02:32 PM

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