In My Name

Synopsis

It’s not easy being optimistic in London. You’ve just been dumped, your landlord won’t fix the boiler, the city’s going up in smoke and to top it all off your new flatmate may or may not have taken the deliveryman hostage. An insight into the consequence of allowing life to pass you by. As Grim and Royal find out, no matter how much you bury your head in the sand, the world has a funny way of forcing itself right through your front door.

Our Review:

4 July 2008

“All I wanted was a night in,” bleats James Alexandrou’s dopey Grim as he surveys the human battlefield his grimy East End basement flat has turned into by act two of Steven Hevey’s dark and dangerous comedy set against a backdrop of the July 7th terror bombings in London and the more distant war on terror raging in Iraq.

Draped in his depressingly dingy dressing gown, dreary young shelf-stacker Grim has been dumped by his girlfriend, but his mobile won’t work, there’s nothing much on the telly, a mouthy geezer from work called Royal (Ray Panthaki) has called round with a Die Hard DVD and is doing drugs in the (broken) toilet, and to cap it all his paranoid new ex-soldier flatmate, Egg (Kevin Watt), has finally cracked, having slipped into a vest and camouflage pants and held the local Indian takeaway delivery man hostage (Adeel Akhtar). Meanhile, beyond the glum nether regions of Upton Park, London is at a standstill, buses are being blown...

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houndtang - 13 July 2008:

The comic first half gives way to a more lurid second act and the interval was unneccessary in an 80 minute play but this is an engrossing production, well-suited to the intimate Studio 2, with strong performances from the cast. Well worth seeing (especially for £10 on lastminute) while it lasts....

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