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Long old dump for a long old year 📍🎊
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sammy d got his 1st class degree!! i’ll never be able to express how amazing the past 3 years have been with my best friends. i ❤️ you @guildfordschoolofacting <3 see ya laterrrrr 🌍🌟
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Together again for the LAST time! 

Closing the coffin on Young Frankenstein and GSA BA MT’26 for the last time :(

It’s been a blast, feeling very grateful for this being the way my time at GSA ends, surrounded by the people who made the last three years so special. 

ALL the love x

📸 - @stevegregsonphotos
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (GUILDFORD SCHOOL OF ACTING)

This was a seriously impressive final show from GSA’s graduating third-years. It’s fair to say each and every performer fully embraced the absurdity of this Mel Brooks madcap musical, leaning into the farce and innuendo in equal measure.

Young Frankenstein is obviously a funny show, littered with gags and slapstick comedy throughout, but it is such a skill to execute it as well as this. I watched the last performance and it was completely flawless.

For those who don’t know, it is based on Brooks’ 1974 film of the same name in which Frederick Frankenstein, a descendant of Victor, travels to Transylvania upon his grandfather’s death and takes up the ‘family business’ for himself.

George Acworth was fantastic as Frederick, striking the right balance between being the show’s only - relatively - character before giving into his urges and embracing the madness. Frederick may be the ‘straight man’ of the piece but Acworth’s characterisation got a huge amount of laughs.

So much of this came from his relationship with servant Igor (Ashton Sharp), who leant into every piece of physical comedy and delivered one-liners like a pro. Likewise, Conor Cox’s Monster was exactly what I’d hoped for both before and after the ‘brain transfer’.

But it was the female characters that pushed so much of the humour forward. Emma Jane Cook was relentlessly funny as Inga - both ‘Roll In The Hay’ and ‘Listen To Your Heart’ were captivating. 

I’m so glad this production didn’t shy away from the innuendo and the physical humour. At times it felt like Carry On Transylvania and I say that in the best possible way. On that note, the staging of ‘Please Don’t Touch Me’ was iconic.

That brings me on to Amy Turner’s Elizabeth. Wow. She was delightfully ridiculous and alluring in the role, with her solo numbers - including ‘Deep Love’ - probably getting the biggest laughs.

Other standouts included Rachel Cadley as a spirited Frau Blucher and Joe Harris as Hermit - bravo to director Will Holyhead for the staging of that scene, by the way.

There’s so much more I could say (great set, elite choreo!) but I LOVED it and so wish I could see it again.
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