Review: Floating the Lowry, Salford Quays ; in Association with Liverpool.Com

Liverpool Echo › September 21, 2007

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IMAGINE, if you will, the Isle of Anglesey, torn from the rest of Britain in some catastrophic earthquake - then, imagine this floating isle on a wild North Atlantic cruise, while the rest of the world is distracted by Maggie Thatcher's marines yomping across the Falklands. Difficult, isn't it? Well, give this manic Hoipolloi company production a few minutes to hoist anchor and you will be onboard and hell bent on having your say about the navigation.

It is misleading to say Floating is a play. It is not even a multi-media production, although slide shows, sound effects and additional film all play their parts. It is perhaps best to say it is an event - a moveable feast of mania and serendipity and leave it at that for the moment. It is also - if you are happy to have your smiles in laughs in large doses of deconstructed humour - very funny. The plot, in essence, is all about central character Hugh Hughes, (played by Hugh Hughes), contemplating leaving Anglesey until time, tide and aforementioned earthquake, stop him in his tracks, leaving him high and dry, well almost dry, aboard his floating island.

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Review: Floating the Lowry, Salford Quays ; in Association with Liverpool.Com

Hugh is not satisfied with being tossed about by nature he...

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