Midnight at the Website of Good and Evil
Midnight at the Website of Good and Evil
Canal Cafe Theatre, August 1999
Written and performed by Claire Taylor
Music by Stuart Barr
Directed by Diana Hillier
Millennium Bug played by Adrian Metcalf
I’d been in NewsRevue at the Canal Cafe Theatre earlier in the year and liked the venue so I decided to rework a show I’d done at university (Night in with the Girls, ADC Theatre, 1995) for the millennium.
The premise was simple. As midnight approaches on December 31, 1999, the Millennium Bug (aka Martin) needs help to prevent the world from certain doom but everyone is out at parties – apart from five women. So, the Millennium Bug persuades one of them to help him, uploads her onto the internet and transforms her into these other ladies who must each perform a specific task in order to save the world. And along the way they sing some funny songs and do some funny things. So, basically a comedy character sketch show with songs… It was great fun and I still wheel out the songs (brilliantly composed by the spectacular Stuart Barr) and poems from it every now and then.
