Ane Wee Touch O' Class By Rikki Fulton
Leitheatre

The New Town's nouveau riche are sent up in this Burgh based 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme', adapted from Molière by the late Rikki Fulton. The script, while simplifying and abridging the original, stays true to Molière's comic intentions, with word-play, puns, innuendo and asides to the viewer. The elderly audience around me provided a few asides of their own, too, not unlike those running commentaries available on a DVD's special features. Don Arnott, as the eponymous social climber, ably pulls off Fulton's prose and his great physicality has the audience in stitches whilst the characters' tasteless aspirations are conveyed with riotously over-the-top set and costumes. A good old-fashioned comedy that delighted its audience and honoured a man who's been described as a Scottish legend.

tw rating 3/5
[se]

www.threeweeks.co.uk