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Lottie Plachett Took a Hatchett – Edinburgh Fringe

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Ed Fortune
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Fans of true crime (and Starburst readers who like a certain sort of horror movie) will be familiar with the story of Lizzy Borden and may even know the folk rhyme about the related axe-murders.  Lottie Platchett Took a Hatchett is a comedy drama inspired by these horrific events that took place over a hundred years ago.

The show opens with the titular Lottie (Starship’s Lauren Lopez) on trial for murder.  The judges and other law-types are bearded idiots with testosterone related names.  Lottie is accused of being bother woman and a murderer; it’s hard to tell which thing the judge thinks is worse. The rest of the story is told in flashback.

We meet Lottie’s father (Nope’s Ryan W Garcia), with whom Lottie is infatuated,  Lottie’s little brother Pansy (Buffy the Vampire star Tom Lenk)  and the step-mother,  Barfa (  Justin Elizabeth Sayre ). The rest of the show is a camp farce;  Lottie lusts for her father, Pansy, who is confined to his room, lusts for a male connection, and Barfa just wants the weird kids out of her new house.

This is a very camp, innuendo filled panto of a show. The humour is thick with crass jokes and cartoonish over-reaction.  Though it feels like the narrative is trying to say something meaningful every time it comes close it crawls back into cheeky one-liners and crude humour. It’s very queer (in all senses of the word) throughout and fun in a very high-camp, sit-com sort of way.

It has some deliciously dark twists and turns and is mostly worth a watch to see Lenk and Lopez spar with each other across the stage. Fun, but in a very camp way.

 

Tickets can be found here.

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