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Fringe Review: KING TV – Live In Ultimate 3D

King TV defies classification. It has aspects of dance, theatre and music, and it’s listed in the Fringe Guide as a cross-artform piece of Circus and Physical Theatre.

Presented by Timothy Ohl
Reviewed on 18 March 2017

King TV defies classification. It has aspects of dance, theatre and music, and it’s listed in the Fringe Guide as a cross-artform piece of Circus and Physical Theatre. I guess there’s no “incomprehensible mishmash of 80s references and TV shows” category.

I have a soft spot for absurdist theatre, but this was unintelligible. The name Timothy King Jr is the thread that tenuously ties together a series of scenes ranging from an interpretive dance recreation of the Challenger disaster to intentionally bad infomercials and stand-up material about “topical” 80s subjects like Chernobyl and the Berlin Wall.

While one performer furiously moves between characters (and shows off some impressive dance moves), the other operates a camera that provides the live feed for some segments and plays gameboy as a satire of consumerist culture. Maybe.

There’s so much going on it’s hard to follow at times, and despite the frenetic pace and short running time, it still feels like there’s plenty that could be cut.

Perhaps the best description for King TV (and an accurate representation of how it will divide audiences) is to say it is akin to a live Tim & Eric.

Reviewed by Alexis Buxton-Collins

Rating out of 5: 2

Season ended

 

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