Theatre Royal, Windsor – until 14 March 2020
Reviewed by Carly Burlinge
4****
Duchotel (Tony Gardner) loves to go hunting, or so he tells his wife, but instead is having far to much fun hunting for different prey all together. When his wife Leontine (Tesse Peake-Jones), a respectable lady, discovers through the talk of others of his shenanigans. She decides that she is going to plot her revenge. Although her husbands friend and Doctor Morciet (Richard Earl) holds a torch for her and comes across romantic and a lot of flirtatious moments take place between them.
She is very intent though, that she is under no obligation towards her flirtatious moments with Morciet and most certainly wants to make sure her reputations stands tall. But will she be faltered if her husband is up to no good, or will she try to catch him out or be the one that gets caught out herself?
Morciet plays a great part being a doctor who thinks quite a lot of himself but can also come across quite nervous at times but is very energetic on stage. He enjoys putting the seed of doubt into Leontines head in order to get what he wants. He does a great job of winding her up which makes her at times very abrupt, loses her patience and flies into mini rages making it very funny to watch with lots of laughter. Duchotel is fun to watch whilst he constantly chats and over-talks, which on many occasions gets himself into further trouble through all his constant squabbling and lying making the audience laugh out loud.
Who will get caught in the end who will actually tell the truth and how many accusations can be put out in order to confuse the situation any further?
The set was great as stylish Paris apartments with great detail all around such as panelling and French cornices, candle sticks, French tables with vases along with a grand fireplace to the left. Scene change was done amazingly well with a few changes to furniture as well as some of the set being rotated in the wall simple but very effective
Bang Bang is a very funny chaotic comedy that was fun to watch, offered many laughs throughout the show with lots of mayhem thrown in. Definitely one to go and see.