The Games - The Marathon Tour
Company: Spike Theatre
Role: Co-director with Mark Smith
Cast: Liam Tobin, Mark Keemar Smith, Keddie Sutton
Company: Spike Theatre
Role: Co-director with Mark Smith
Cast: Liam Tobin, Mark Keemar Smith, Keddie Sutton
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Reviews
The Times
'This is Crazy Theatre, where three performers play a dozen roles and make merry use of dance, clowning, puppetry, shadow play, simulated nudity and terrible couplets. Oh, and acting too... ingeniously invented and explosions of laughter from the audience.'
Whats On Stage
'Co-directors Mark Smith and John Garfield Roberts create a fresh and cheeky, improvised feel for the show... The Games is a refreshing and very funny show.'
The Chester Chronicle
'A classic comedy in more ways than one...The Games is worthy of carrying the name of the Athenian Father of Comedy.'
The Reviews Hub
'An amalgamation of storytelling through puppetry, songs, dancing, impressions, and general wonderful tom foolery is executed with complete commitment, making this piece one not to be missed. It is rare to see an adult audience almost hysterical with laughter, but in this play the laughter is infectious.'
A Younger Theatre
'A slick, inventive and hysterically funny show. Don’t miss it.'
Liverpool Daily Post
'Spike Theatre’s excellent creation manages to capture the slapstick magic of Greek comedy in a play which is both clever pastiche and hilarious good fun...The Games is becoming a gold medal-winning classic in its own right.'
Made Up Liverpool
'Stuffed full of clowning, puns, songs, physical theatre, wit and fun, The Games is one of the funniest, sweetest and most endearing original plays to come out of Liverpool in recent years, there's just no doubt about that.' - Vicky Anderson
Leftlion
'The auditorium echoed with laughter from start to finish. The treatment of the story is bold, anarchic, inspired and packed with neat tricks, this will be a show to remember'