A bit of breaking and entering, a stopped watch, a dead rabbit down the back of a sofa and a group of thieves held together by the thin string of "a plan": things are bound to go wrong. You know that they will as soon as you learn that they have named themselves after The Beatles and their manager. John, Paul, George, Ringo and Brian, all of them none too bright, have broken into a deserted flat in preparation for a "job" across the road. Predictably the "job" turns into one long comic disaster, their plans gradually falling apart to leave them in a state of paranoid confusion exacerbated by each others' irritating company. As they become more annoyed with each other they escape into the world of the magician who had previously occupied the flat and has now disappeared without trace... 
     John Fielding's play is of course a comedy, and a very funny one. There is no deep message unless "doing illegal things never works out the way you want it to" can be classed as such. John (Adam Burton) and Paul (Jonathan Slack) keep the first part of the play together, setting a standard of funniness that gets better and better as the situation in which the five are entangled deepens. Stephen Sorbal is immensely entertaining as a young Ringo deeply attached to the deceased rabbit. 
     The script is brilliant and so is the timing with which it's performed. John Fielding's hilarious text exploits the ostensible characters of the Beatles – George (David Newman) as the rather dim one, Ringo as the impressionable young one, Paul the sensible one, John the one who does not much care, and Brian (Thanasi Panagiotopoulos) the one in charge, who is not very good at keeping his team in order. It makes for a great night out, if only to see the surreal episode in the middle between Ringo, Paul and the dead white rabbit.
Elizabeth Shenton