Theatre Review Spraywatch
‘Spraywatch’ is a new musical that is hard to pigeonhole. It has a lively score with a strong 1980’s musical feel, being in a large part inspired a certain 1980’s American TV show whilst being a satire of both Northern English attitudes and isolated English coastal communities. The show is a comedy but it has something to say and can at times be quite biting. Spray is an English coastal town which has seen better days and the premise is that a glamorous beach lifeguard call Pam based in Santa Monica, California receiving an unlikely request to fly across the pond to Spray, who were apparently in need of a lifeguard. Accepting this invitation as a personal challenge, Pam quickly discovered that life in England was not what she expecting and her initial interactions with the locals were less than harmonious but she was harbouring a dark secret that could jeopardize her employment. What followed was an exploration of the life and characters in a faded seaside town coupled wit...