Nicolette Minster
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
In Cooped, introduced as a ‘gothic romance novella’, Spymonkey play between, above and beyond the boundaries of genre in a 90 minute ode to melodrama and the absurd. Heroine Laura arrives in a mansion of mammoth proportions, beautifully depicted, however, by a set that combines the architectural skill of a primary school pantomime and nativity display.
Spymonkey develop their humour through a finely balanced combination of the anticipated and the unexpected. Who, after all, expects the characters of a Hitchcock-esque narrative to break out into a number appropriate for only the …
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