The Best of Flying Pig does everything it says on the packet. If you can beg, borrow or steal a ticket, do so. Your sense of humour depends on it.
—Sonja Rasmussen, Evening Express
An invitation to perform at HMT's temporary venue at Hilton led to Best Back
, our second outing of 2004 and our second Best Of
production.
Initial concerns that our fan-base might balk at being asked to again fork out their hard-earned cash to see material which they now seemed to know better than the performers did proved to be ill founded; enough of you wanted the proverbial another chance to see
The Mither! Wedding saga, The Buckie Drifters and our fey Doric characterisation of Ghengis Khan to enable us to sell out and garner further pleasing reviews.
A party? Oh well, if we must. And as we gathered at Greg and Susan's for the traditional wine and stovies, we were all agreed that the concussion suffered by one of our number in advertently head-butting an opening car boot while loading props out of the theatre was a small price to pay for another successful show.
Review by Sonja Rasmussen
Aberdeen Evening Express
In just six years, the Flying Pig has travelled from its launch pad at Aberdeen’s Lemon Tree to the stage of Her Majesty’s Theatre, earning itself a good few air miles – and a theatre full of fans – in the process.
This latest show reminds us of their journey so far, presenting the eight talented comedy actors who started out in Student Show and now find themselves perfectly at home on the stage of the city’s largest theatre, where it looks as though they might be tempted to stay.
As a “Best Of” show, theatregoers will have seen some of the material before, but predictable it certainly is not, as you reacquaint yourself with such classics as Mither and Archie and Davie, and laugh all over again at the hilarious lines you certainly won’t remember from last time.
Characters retired a few shows back make a welcome return – The Liar, Oor Faither, Ghengis Khanna and the boys from The Cruel Sea provide some side-splitting moments, while rewritten lyrics for some of the best-known pop songs vary the pace and become classics in themselves.
The Best of Flying Pig does everything it says on the packet. If you can beg, borrow or steal a ticket, do so. Your sense of humour depends on it.