Ablutions
From: Tuesday, 16th April 2013
To: Thursday, 18 April 2013
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Synopsis
Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and leaving your whiskey aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape...
Our Review:
Simon Harvey-Williams - 16 April 2013
In a down at heel Hollywood bar the barman (Eoin Slattery) observes the same bunch of eccentric regulars coming in night after night making the same conversations and acting out the same predictable drunken behaviour. Each night has a Ground Hog Day quality to the disillusioned bartender but he is unable to escape his predicament due to his own psychological flaws which make him little better than the damaged individuals he observes. Fellswoop Theatre’s Ablutions tells the story of one man’s booze-soaked drift into drink, divorce and a struggle to escape his circumstances.
With musical accompaniment provided throughout by the cast of three - plus Ben Osborn on guitar - the play has no set or props but instead lets the story and the characterisations do all the work. Slattery is excellent as the un-named barman who watches proceedings with a cynical commentary but at the same time is reluctant to address his own foibles. Unlike the other char...
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Bristol Old Vic Ferment (Producer)
FellSwoop Theatre (Company)
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