Hold on to your … what? Your enjoyment of this show may well depend on whether you recognise the title. Many will immediately recall a chain-smoking Samuel L Jackson uttering that warning of imminent jeopardy in Jurassic Park. Everybody else will be playing catch up as the 1993 dino saga is recreated with nerdy detail and velociraptor-like speed on a tiny stage using a budget more Scrooge than Spielberg.
Created by the US company Recent Cutbacks, it had a run this summer at the Edinburgh fringe where lo-fi pastiches of blockbusters have become a popular subgenre. Some, like Richard Marsh’s one-man Die Hard tribute Yippee Ki Yay, combine the retelling with new (in his case autobiographical) subplots. But this is a one-note spoof, the joke never amounting to much more than, say, depicting a triceratops with three party hats or substituting an open umbrella for a helicopter action sequence. At times the show gets bogged down – and confusing for Jurassic newbies – by rattling through plot points and minutiae from the movie rather than offering an extra dimension.
