Most people know of Bonnie and Clyde, the romantic duo who murdered and robbed banks throughout America. Andrew Westerside and Gillian Lees introduce themselves as actors and follow by telling and empathising with the journey of Bonnie and Clyde. The retelling begins at their meeting and finishes at their deaths. The conventions of storytelling create a very personal touch to the performance as the actors laugh at each other, are very relaxed and insert little comments about the other’s performance. This provides a lighthearted and simple touch but still creates an impact when it is needed. For example, though the performers are playing with stage guns, eventually the seriousness of getting shot is conveyed to the audience with a graphic description of what happens when a human is shot in the lung. The re-telling of the tale does not pretend to have all the facts or know how the people involved are feeling but it does try to give the most accurate account about what happened. The way the story is told does gear itself towards the romantic version of the story, however.The method of storytelling uses a number of different techniques including a projector, live-feed video and a number of different props. Science and maths are also used as a quirky way to reference different facts; at one point the mathematical equation for the Bonnie and Clyde story is presented. Although these techniques are interesting and entertaining, the deliberate lack of dramatisation means that I felt like most of the facts being fed to me could be found by a quick Google search. However, the show still entertains and retells, as titled, Bonnie and Clyde in the third person.
