STAGE: T.ZEE AND THE LOST RACE: THE REVIEWS
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Review by J W Lambert, The Sunday Times, 15 August 1976.

I should like to given this week’s new plays precedence over yet another Chekhov revival, but they did not earn it. At the Royal Court, in “T Zee”, a follow up to the “Rocky Horror Show”, Richard O’Brien and Richard Hartley have contrived a curiously decorous, quite jolly mish-mash of yet more camp rubbish left over from the late sixties. Comical to hear a Royal Court audience, long-haired, bejeaned, bangled and presumably as liberated as all get out, tittering with self-conscious glee at the ever-so-naughty word “shitty”.

“T Zee” is a very moral tale, with Tarzan as an oafish natural man let loose among the deformed depravities of an amusement-arcade Los Angeles. Warren Clarke makes him an engaging figure, as does Diane Langton the fetchingly obese Princess La; between them, as they bellowed into their microphones, they irresistibly recalled Siegfried and Brunhilde, who for me will never be quite the same again.

ROBC 2001

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