Review: VENUS AND ADONIS, Riverside Studios
The performance ambles between overly physical and shackled by stillness. Hunter delivers the difference in characters through caricatural vocal modulations, which redundancy adds Venus’s excessive flamboyancy in an annoying chain of vapid banality. We come out of it with very little. He is a visibly passionate performer, but his trepidation doesn’t truly transfer to the audience. It almost makes us want to ask what exactly is going on. What’s with the sudden makeup? Why is he dressed like a businessman with plimsolls? Why is he telling us all this? “So quick bright things come to confusion.”
Christopher Hunter to Make Edinburgh Fringe Debut with VENUS AND ADONIS
With an impressive body of work including Sherlock, 51st State, Mr Selfridge, Silent Witness, The Bill and Dracula, leading theatre, television and film actor Christopher Hunter makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year, in his new solo interpretation of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at C Venues Hill Street.
Christopher Hunter to Make Edinburgh Fringe Debut with VENUS AND ADONIS
With an impressive body of work including Sherlock, 51st State, Mr Selfridge, Silent Witness, The Bill and Dracula, leading theatre, television and film actor Christopher Hunter makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year, in his new solo interpretation of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at C Venues Hill Street.