The Random Acts of Wildness Theatre Company presents itself as a workshop which aims to teach us the finer points of theatre and acting. The dysfunctional duo promises the audience a short warm up and then later a performance of legless and armless. This is a play in which one man has no use of his legs and the other has no use of his arms, but they manage to struggle by. If all of this should go well Alan promises the other Alan that he can perform his song. We follow two characters with immense character flaws who try to struggle through the sometimes complicated and confusing world of theatre.While the show gets progressively better, pulling more and more laughs as it struggles along it was devastated by a poor start. It begins as a show which tries to make comedy out of an odd couple who keep on getting things wrong. The lighting, sound and performer cues are all in the wrong places and so this slapstick farce bumbled on, despite a kind of comedy that is irritating, uncreative, and can leave audiences feeling extremely unfulfilled. The comedy improved over time, but the rest of the show was still tainted by this start.
