Breaking Baz: The Quentin Tarantino Universe Expands To London With Stage Show Featuring Sword Fights, Kung Fu & Funky Songs
18.04.2023 - 11:45
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EXCLUSIVE: Summer’s going to be a scorcher in London. Tarantino Live: Fox Force Five & the Tyranny of Evil Men is coming to town in June.
The cabaret-style stage show, a huge hit in Los Angeles where it’s still running after 13 years, heads to the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith from June 6 for a 10-week season through August 13.
Definitely fair to point out that there are as many Tarantino aficionados here in Blighty as there are in Tarantino’s manor in LA. Spend any time in the less trendy parts of Hackney in East London or across the river in Peckham and you’ll hear teens discuss their attire or their fast-food snacks while referencing a line from a Tarantino movie. Some of these kids weren’t born when some of these movies first came out yet they know them. They know them scene-by-scene, line-by-line. They’ll be queueing, in an orderly fashion, one hopes, to see this one.
It’s the brainchild of Shane Scheel, the founder and executive producer of For The Record, and Anderson Davis, who adapted and directed the show. Tarantino Live is “like you’re stepping into the mind of a famous Hollywood director” Davis told me, except in this case ”it’s very, if I may say so, a very f***ed up world.”
That’s the Tarantino cinematic universe, for sure. All of the auteur’s pictures from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with everything in between including the biggies like the two volumes of Kill Bill films, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained are referenced in the stage production.
What Scheel and Davis have done is to sort of flip Tarantino’s world where his movies are powered by electrifying dialogue, but for the show they use the eclectic range of popular songs the filmmaker used in his films to propel its
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