Laughton Kora stars in Live Live Cinema's Little Shop of Horrors.
Until now, the 1960 movie version of Little Shop of Horrors was known for three things: being shot in just two days on left-over sets, Jack Nicholson's first screen appearance, and spawning the Broadway musical turned saccharine-coated oddball 1980s film.
Now the original light-black comedy - which never took itself
seriously - will also be known for cornflakes that sound like carnations, toilet plungers worn as headgear and a rendition of Poi E by Seymour's hypochondriac mother.
The ridiculous jokes on screen (banana peel slips! cod liver soup!) are matched by merry mayhem off screen, so that you want to look five places at once and you lose any notion of where the noise is coming from.
Creator/composer Leon Radojkovic and director Oliver Driver have used their successful Live Live Cinema format for four years, but this time they ratchet up the madcap: the live music, dialogue and foley sound effects are all produced by a cast of only four.
And what brilliant, charismatic actor-musicians they are: Fringe festival favourite Barnie Duncan, Byron Coll who disappears wonderfully inside his characters, Hayley Sproull the anchoring pianist whose voice as Audrey-the-woman is perfect, and magnetic Laughton Kora, whose acting is a revelation.
