The Internationalist
From: Thursday, 3rd April 2008
To: Saturday, 3 May 2008
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Lowell goes abroad on business. He thinks he’s in one of those great American films where you go to a foreign land and there’s romance and adventure. However, Lowell soon discovers that he’s not in one of those movies, he’s in one of those foreign films where nothing is as it seems, where there is no clear hero, and most importantly; no subtitles.
Our Review:
9 April 2008
Foreign travel used to be so exciting. "Come Fly with Me", Frank Sinatra would sing enticingly. Well, it ain’t quite that way any more – though Natalie Abrahami has him crooning "these foolish things remind me of you" into our ears at the end of Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist.
A 'radical’ new American voice, Washburn’s play is dubbed "a rumination on a multi-lingual world trying to understand itself – without the subtitles", a variation on lost in translation, if you will.
Lowell, a young American (the very up-and-coming Elliot Cowan, late of Manchester Royal Exchange’s Henry V and soon to be Mr Darcy in ITV’s Lost in Austen) is on a business trip abroad. We see him being met at the airport where Sara (Jennifer Higham), a young colleague from his firm, begins to show him the city.
Cut to the office and conversations in a language he cannot understand. Cut to further scenes between our Lowell and Sara in which she introduces ...
Creative
Anne Washburn (Author)
The Gate (Producer)
Natalie Abrahami (Director)
Tom Scutt (Design)
Ben Pacey (Lighting)
Carolyn Downing (Sound)
Pedro Pirew (Choreographer)
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