After viewing Fred, you are left with two questions; is there really any meaning in it or is it just designed purely for entertainment.

The piece portrays certain themes (for example; love, death, sex and lust) throughout the performance but doesn't examine them thoroughly enough to give the viewer a sense of realisation after seeing it. The themes are portrayed in "cheesy "tasteless situations and aren't really comical.

You see each event fold out after the next, each one more inane than the last.

You automatically see that the characters are all based on stereotypical personas, which leads the production along a path that is easily predictable and unchallenging. The production forms a classical "Police sitcom/detective novel" which tries desperately to grab laughs but fails. However, the set designer must receive credit, because due to the lack of substance this piece has, one of the only things keeping it afloat is its innovative use of lighting and sets.

The final scene was kind of bizarre though, all of a sudden they had worked out their differences; Monica is pregnant to the gay detective sent to investigate the case of "Fred", Pamela, the mystery novel freak is pregnant to Barry the car salesman, Antoinette and Miles (Detective) are together and Rod and are all happy and everything seems fine.

Pamela finds the body at the start and then decides to visit "him" at the morgue, then "Fred" is positioned neatly in the left hand corner of the stage for the rest of the show as a reminder of how close we all could be to death. The characters are all typical stereotypes and each scene is basically the same; each stereotype clashing with the opposite one in a ploy to try and make this dull mess interesting...too bad it doesn't work.

Pamela is a girl that is so addicted in Mystery Novels that she becomes so embroiled in the goings on of the whole "Fred "fiasco that she becomes a bit irrational. The whole "wings" element is used as a point of establishing the fantasy side of her persona and the story.

Considering this was Directed by the "Fabulous" Mr Gow, I was expecting something skilfully prepared and "...one of the most assured stage come

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