Seeing Double
From: Monday, 8th April 2013
To: Saturday, 13 April 2013
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Upstairs, a hapless production team desperately try to rope a show together before opening night. Downstairs, the actors are led by questionable director Julio Buenaventura through a rehearsal process the like of which they have never experienced. Unbeknownst to them, the actors' every move is under scrutiny from the team above who quickly discover, using a live video stream, that all is not what it seems with the enigmatic Buenaventura. All sides fear a tragedy will occur and that's before Macbeth has even started. One thing's for certain: The truth will out and the farce will commence (twice!)
Our Review:
10 April 2013
Putting on a play about putting on a play is boring. It’s not novel, it’s been done to death and, quite frankly, in a world where Lena Dunham produces achingly cool semi-autobiographical sitcoms, it’s just not meta enough. But, fear not, thesps: there’s a way to break free from the bone-crunching banality of meta-theatre. And it’s simple. You put on two plays at once, make your split-audience swap plays in the interval and get outrageously attractive “pro-dram” actor Dale (Barnaby Eliot) to run between the two wearing something closely resembling a leather mankini. Who knew?
Seeing Double, by Alex Woolf and Sadie Spencer from Greenlight Theatre, follows the story of an opportunistic delivery man (Oliver Gyani) who steals the identity of a renowned avant-garde theatre director. The play takes place in two rooms – the dressing room and the rehearsal space – with actors moving between the two and “spying” o...
Creative
Alex Woolf (Author)
Sadie Spencer (Author)
Greenlight Theatre (Company)
Alex Woolf (Director)
Sadie Spencer (Director)
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