"Parrot's Revue," in brief, was in keeping with topsy-turvy Pirates Week

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"Parrot's Revue" which opened at the Holiday Inn on Wednesday evening as the Cayman Drama Society's contribution to Pirates Week fell somewhat short of the traditionally high standards of that company's productions. Despite sparkling performances by Mike Parker, Steve Williams, Terry Murphy and Alistair Paterson, the overall concept of the revue lacked not only cohesion, but even the loosest adherence to the piratical theme that was apparently attempted. Perhaps the greatest criticism of the production should consist in the fact that, for the most part, at least fifty percent of the audience didn't really know what was going on. That fifty percent were largely tourists, for the most part Americans, who not only could not make out the stiff British accents, but upon whom the many pearls of Engligh wit fell like so many ounces of foreign matter.

In the end, however, it may have been a combination of Mike Parker's masterful deliverance of a Caymanian sermon and Steve Williams' and Terry Murphy's haggling in a cheese shop that saved the evening from total disaster.

Nick Press must have experienced much trauma in attempting to direct such a production where acute direction could actually mitigate against a free dramatic flow

Young Ole Parker must be congratulated for his extremely effective lighting, as the wardrobe and properties crew must equally be accorded praise, their dressing of the cast in pirate outfits having done the lot in reminding the audience of the purpose of the production.

The Drama Society have done and can do better, but perhaps in keeping with the spirit of Pirates Week, when absolutely everything is in reverse order, they decided to be faithful to this topsy-turvy trend.