Crash Jordon

Only 48 hours to save the earth and a test match to play at the end of 
it? Sounds like a day in the life of Crash Jordon...

When Crash, international cricketing superstar, attempts to chat up the 
beautiful Dale Hardon, he is surprised and not a little disappointed to 
find himself (and his prospective love-interest) suddenly propelled into 
the alternative universe of the megalomaniac Emperor Mingus and his evil 
sidekick Klittus, where the two must battle to save their planet from 
destruction.

Yet with Crash beginning to sympathise with his gaoler, Klittus, and Dale's 
strange attraction to the evil Mingus and his facial hair, they need all 
the help they can get. Along for the ride are the sexually confused Prince 
Dalton, the larger than life winged Soltan and a whole host of wives, 
daughters, lovers and guards - not to mention accountants!

Will Crash save the earth? Can Dale keep off the job for a few hours? Will 
the captivating Phwoara make a man out of Dalton? You would have found out at the 
Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, November 5th to 7th 2009

To get an idea of what this production was like, here is a list of the characters.

Not content with two new plays on together in October 2009, Gytha had a third play on the following month at the Mumford Theatre in Cambridge, this one Crash Jordon, a lavish parody with grand gestures and tiny costumes.

“Actually, that one doesn’t have a lot of tense, dramatic situations, really,” Gytha admits. “It’s the more ridiculous end-point of putting people in extreme situations. Like what would happen if you were an international cricketer transported to another world to save your planet, or if you were a war correspondent thrown haplessly into the middle of it all, at the mercy of a strange moustachioed villain. You have to ask yourself if you would come over all heroic, or just ad-lib and hope it all went ok. Would you make friends with the henchmen? Would you quite fancy the evil guy with the moustache? That sort of thing.”

 Girton Players and newly formed Adaptive Theatre Company made a splash as well as entertained the cast and the audience with this one.

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