Imagine This Review
Imagine This follows the lives of ordinary people trapped inside a Warsaw Ghetto during the second world war. The prisoners that are the subject of the story are mainly made up of a family run theatre company. Whilst inside the ghetto, the head of the family and owner of the theatre company, played by musical theatre veteran Peter Polycarpou, decides to continue with the play that they were working on when imprisoned and perform for an audience of the other prisoners. This creates a play within a play with the prisoners play telling the story of Masada, in which an estimated 960 Jews in 70 AD held out in a hillside fortress against the Roman army, and eventually committed mass suicide rather than surrender.
The two stories are strikingly similar and this is where the problem lies with both parts blending in to one. The only real distinction coming when either Nazis or Romans were present on stage. Even then, the fact that for the most part you are watching the play within the play made it easy to forget that Imagine This is supposed to be set during the war and not Roman times.
Overall the play was well performed but came across quite disjointed and with no real identity. The best parts for me were actually a few jokes that the war time head of the family told during the story in the ghetto.
Rating 3 out of 5
by Wayne Davies
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