21-05-2025
Shucked review — this clever screwball musical is perfect escapism
★★★★★These are bleak times, but the good news is that you can escape it all by visiting three new or new-ish shows that all use gloriously funny meta humour. The Mischief Theatre team romp through every espionage joke under the sun in The Comedy About Spies, while the cast of Titanique mercilessly send up James Cameron's ocean-liner bombast. And now, at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, you can wallow in a screwball musical putting Grand Ole Opry pieties through the shredder.
Shucked, which opened on Broadway two years ago, is the hilarious opening shot in Drew McOnie's inaugural season as artistic director. It delivers a diet of puns — clever, raunchy and sometimes knowingly cheap — as two lovers take a wrong
