Nerds review – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates go toe-to-toe in a rollicking rap battle
by Arifa Akbar from on (#6Z8XD)
Cowbarn at Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh
The two titans of tech are parodied in a thoroughly fun send-up of the competition between Apple and Microsoft
This musical comedy about billionaire tech gurus Steve Jobs (Kane Oliver Parry) and Bill Gates (Dan Buckley) is, in all likelihood, not going to enlighten you about the making of these Silicon Valley founders.
A young Gates (of Microsoft) meets Jobs (of Apple and iPhones) at a Homebrew Computer Club competition in the 1970s. Jobs wins it and from hereon the rivalry is on - or that is how this production spins it.
Continue reading...