The Upcoming
  • Cinema & Tv
    • Movie reviews
    • Film festivals
      • Berlin
      • Tribeca
      • Sundance London
      • Cannes
      • Locarno
      • Venice
      • London
      • Toronto
    • Show reviews
  • Music
    • Live music
  • Food & Drinks
    • News & Features
    • Restaurant & bar reviews
    • Interviews & Recipes
  • Theatre
  • Art
  • Travel & Lifestyle
  • Literature
  • Fashion & Beauty
    • Accessories
    • Beauty
    • News & Features
    • Shopping & Trends
    • Tips & How-tos
    • Fashion weeks
      • London Fashion Week
      • London Fashion Week Men’s
      • New York Fashion Week
      • Milan Fashion Week
      • Paris Fashion Week
      • Haute Couture
  • Join us
    • Editorial unit
    • Our writers
    • Join the team
    • Join the mailing list
    • Support us
    • Contact us
  • Competitions
  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Instagram

  • YouTube

  • RSS

CultureTheatre

Brainiac Live! at the Palace Theatre

Brainiac Live! at the Palace Theatre | Theatre review
22 July 2013
Katy Thomas
Avatar
Katy Thomas
22 July 2013

Brainiac: Science Abuse ran from 2003 to 2008 on Sky One and featured various guest presenters or “brainiacs” who challenged common scientific misconceptions in experiments that were loosely centred around chemistry, physics and biology. Each episode featured exciting tasks, lots of explosions, and usually the destruction of a caravan!

The Palace Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue hosts Brainiac Live!. This immersive live show encourages full audience participation – whether it’s clapping, countdowns or booing. Brainiac Live! is a natural extension of the TV show, and the children and adults in the theatre are cheering along in no time.

Billed early as “the show that farts in the sleeping bag of science”, it becomes apparent that the brainiacs behind the show have been mindful of the adults accompanying the children. There are jokes aplenty for grown-ups through the experiments, dropped casually throughout so not to alienate the little ones, but leaving the older crowd smirking.

Now, here’s the science bit. Experiments include the painful “things you can run through“ during which wallpaper and plasterboard are conquered but netting proves too much of a tangle. “Misheard lyrics”, a PG version of Peter Kay’s live sketch, keeps the audience amused between set changes and it turns out that the best way to spin an office chair is with two small rockets and a Harrier jump jet seatbelt!

The “airzooka challenge” is the final experiment, where airzooka cannons are filled with smoke to punch vortex smoke rings in to the excited crowd. Three audience members are chosen to challenge the brainiacs to the “airzooka challenge”, and much to the delight of the audience they win. Their prize: blowing up a microwave!

Brainiac Live! is jam-packed into an hour of wacky fun for kids with a few sly jokes for the adults. It’s the kind of stuff that everyone wants to try and home but knows they shouldn’t. With a slew of high-octane experiments and the soundtrack to match, it will delight children whilst keeping adults similarly entertained.

★★★★★

Katy Thomas

Brainiac Live! is on at the Palace Theatre until 17th August 2013. For further information or to book visit the show’s website here.

Watch the trailer for Brainiac Live! here:

Related Itemsreview

More in Theatre

The End of the Night at Original Theatre Online

★★★★★
Mae Trumata
Read More

The Throne at Charing Cross Theatre

★★★★★
James Humphrey
Read More

Flamenco Festival 2022 at Sadler’s Wells

★★★★★
Jessica Wall
Read More

Beauty and the Beast: The Musical at London Palladium

★★★★★
Cristiana Ferrauti
Read More

National Theatre’s Connections Festival 2022 showcases young theatre talent across the UK

Sophia Moss
Read More

Evelyn at Southwark Playhouse

★★★★★
Jim Compton-Hall
Read More

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World at Theatre Royal Stratford East

★★★★★
Natallia Pearmain
Read More

King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe

★★★★★
Michael Higgs
Read More

This Is Not Who I Am/Rapture at the Royal Court Theatre

★★★★★
Jessica Wall
Read More
Scroll for more
Tap
  • Popular

  • Latest

  • TOP PICKS

  • Paolo Nutini – Last Night in the Bittersweet
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • Beauty and the Beast: The Musical at London Palladium
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Brian and Charles
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • The Railway Children Return
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Viagra Boys – Cave World
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • Black Bird
    ★★★★★
    apple
  • The End of the Night at Original Theatre Online
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • The Throne at Charing Cross Theatre
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • “We really wanted to create a cabbage gun”: An interview with David Earl and Chris Hayward stars of Brian and Charles
    Cinema & Tv
  • Flamenco Festival 2022 at Sadler’s Wells
    ★★★★★
    Theatre
  • Black Bird
    ★★★★★
    apple
  • Paolo Nutini – Last Night in the Bittersweet
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • Viagra Boys – Cave World
    ★★★★★
    Album review
  • The Railway Children Return
    ★★★★★
    Movie review
  • Adele lights up Hyde Park for BST Festival
    ★★★★★
    Live music
The Upcoming
Pages
  • Contact us
  • Join mailing list
  • Join us
  • Our London food map
  • Our writers
  • Support us
  • What, when, why
With the support from:
International driving license

Copyright © 2011-2020 FL Media

The International Swingers at the Lexington | Live review
The Crash Reel | Movie review