Tickle the Musical at the King’s Head Theatre | Review
Tickle the Musical Peter Davies How do you feel about tickling or being tickled? After all, as babies and children, tickling is a part of life, and many a youngster has been reduced to a helpless mess of giggling by a good old tickle. As you get older, there comes a point where it is not necessarily felt as appropriate to tickle or be tickled. However, if you were to Google the words “ competitive endurance tickling ” you will find a plethora of websites covering the subject. You will also find details of a 2016 documentary by David Farrier and Dylan Reeve. The reason I’m talking about this is because the documentary has now spawned a new musical by Chris Burgess called Tickle which I recently saw at the King’s Head Theatre. In a boring, run-down town, Chris (James McDowall) and Callum (Ben Brooker) are bemoaning their lives. Chris is hoping to get into university while Curtis has nothing more exciting to look forward to than night shift at a local k...