Having been forewarned by the producer
that I might want to read the script and the foreward to the play before
attending the performance, I had an inkling that it was going to be a bit out
there: unsurprisingly I was right!
Call me old fashioned, but I like
a good story. After reading the synopsis of the show I thought that there would
be one, however I found that the playwright’s vile and vulgar verbose vocabulary
(ironically a sentence which could have fitted well into the script) was far
too self-indulgent to give any real chance to the story to take some of the
foreground.
With the actors shacked by a
terribly pretentious script, it is no wonder that the show left the audience
somewhat speechless at the end. As it was, they didn’t do a bad job at all,
with only a few very minor slips ups being more than understandable with such a
barrage of literary confusion thrust upon them in the script. The removal and
immediate reapplication of wigs in the middle of the dialogue seemed a little
bit pointless and happened quite a few times.
The staging was quite resourceful, if a little
sparse, but the creative use of the props should be commended.
Overall, I would say that this
play is only for a very select few who don’t mind swearing, crude sexual
references, long nonalogues (monologues without any real sense of purpose) and
are genuinely curious about the philosophical aspects of theatre, what it is
and what it means. For all other viewers, I feel that this might not quite be
the taste of the fringe that you are looking for.
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