The Perils of Love & Gravity

Each time she falls in love, she is thwarted in preposterously humorous and grisly ways. Meanwhile, an engineer, who turns out to be more of a Stalinist Engineer of Human Souls, is secretly plotting to marry her and is revealed to have been responsible for the deaths of her previous lovers.

A barmy servant called Graeme keeps the plot ticking over and the humour quotient at a high pitch. A standard classroom overhead projector is used to put witty and effective images on the back wall. The actors are at the centre of the action and they work very hard to keep us semiotically and otherwise entertained.

This one is a real gas. It’s ultimately trivial but it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. It’s the apotheosis of well made, deliberately too clever for its own good, student theatre. If that’s what you like, you should definitely catch it.

– Craig Singer