Chichester’s CAOS Musical Productions are back with 'Allo 'Allo 2 - video Dailymotion

'Allo 'Allo 2: The Camembert Caper takes Chichester’s CAOS Musical Productions back to Rene's cafe for another cheesy adventure.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers, lovely to

00:06speak again to Adam Fox of Chaos Musical Productions. Now last year, Chaos tried something slightly

00:11different with a straight play, well not straight, completely straight, a very funny play, L.O.L.O.

00:16And you're back this summer with the next instalment, L.O.L.O. No. 2, Part 2. You're

00:23directing both, what's the fun in L.O.L.O.? Why is it such a classic, do you think?

00:29L.O.L.O. for me, it's got the right blend between stupidity and clever writing. It has

00:37all of the silly jokes in there, but there's quite a lot in there that is kind of witty

00:43play on words and kind of cutting remarks and that kind of side. So I think L.O.L.O.'s

00:48real strength lies in how diverse it is and the type of comedy that it brings. And it

00:53allows different people to laugh at different things throughout the play, which is a real

00:58strength in my opinion.

00:59And what's the challenge for you as a director? Presumably, you've got to keep it going at

01:03a fair old lick, haven't you?

01:06Yeah. One of the main things in L.O.L.O. directing challenge is pacing and keeping it moving

01:11and keeping it going from joke to joke, essentially. But what we tried to do mostly last year was

01:17be as faithful to the TV programme as we possibly could. We knew that people would want to see

01:23L.O.L.O., the TV programme, on the stage rather than us re-imagining the whole thing.

01:29Most of my gig has been trying to get those characters as close to the TV counterparts

01:33as we can.

01:34And that's interesting you say that, that the clear implication is that that TV programme

01:38hasn't aged in any way, that you don't have to change things. There's not sort of political

01:42correctness or anything like that. It still stands as it was, does it?

01:46Yeah. I mean, because of the nature of what the jokes were based on and kind of the silly

01:52humour of it and the odd bit of wit here and there, given it's a show that has obviously

01:59the Germans in it, the Nazis in it and the French resistance and all that kind of what

02:03you would think potentially could be murky ground. Because of the way the comedy is written,

02:08it doesn't really infringe on that in any kind of majorly not politically correct way.

02:13It was something that we thought on quite strongly before we took it on. But having

02:17read both scripts, we really haven't had to change much at all.

02:21Fantastic. And last year was about establishing this slot for the straight theatre, not musical

02:26theatre. And clearly you did that last year then.

02:30Yeah, we had a really, really good response. So we had a good audience response. Our cast

02:36really enjoyed doing it. And that was the goal, that was the aim, was to bring different

02:41audiences in, hopefully have everyone enjoy it and then potentially keep it running year

02:46on year if it was a success. So I'm happy to say we're back again this year. And so,

02:51yeah, it all went well.

02:53Fantastic. We're really good to speak to you again. It's the play July 11th to 13th,

03:00Westbourne and School and tickets available from the Chaos website.

03:04Adam, good to speak to you. Thank you.

03:06Lovely. Thank you, Phil.