Review: FLUMPS, Hoo Hah House - Brighton Fringe

Rounding off a very successful week packed full of incredible Brighton Fringe performances, we found ourselves at the rather peculiar venue of a small multi-purpose room on the second floor of a pub, housing Hoo Hah House’s performance of Flumps.

The piece follows young siblings Harvey and Felicity who, when their mother goes missing, are forced to spend a strange summer in their caravan. We found this to be a very sweet and wholesome piece of theatre with actors Emma Pallett and Susie Coutts successfully capturing the emotional rollercoaster of two children fending for themselves.

The pair do well to create such a humorous and light performance out of a quite serious subject matter, no doubt guided by their director Everleigh Brenner. The venue, unfortunately, does not do the company any favours and actually creates a slightly uncomfortable and distracting air with the pub’s loud happenings stealing focus in the show’s quieter scenes, but that doesn’t diminish the performance too much and the show’s funky noughties soundtrack really helps to drown it out.

Flumps does incredible work in taking such a small and one-dimensional space and manages to create a whole new world by using staging and props in an astounding way, which is a definite stand-out aspect. 

We majorly admire what Flumps is able to achieve in such a limited space and truly believe that the show effortlessly captures the true meaning of fringe theatre.

We highly recommend you come on down to Brighton Fringe and catch this diamond in the rough show before it’s too late! 

*** Three stars

Reviewed by: Natalie Pedro

Flumps plays at Brighton Fringe until 2 June, with tickets available here.