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Narrative

Royal Court - Jerwood Theatre, West End
From: Friday, 5th April 2013
To: Saturday, 4 May 2013

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Synopsis

A new play about stories

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 11 April 2013

Anthony Neilson is one of the most interesting, provocative and unpredictable playwrights around, brilliant at creating creepy atmospheres and danger in a theatre.

But his new piece, Narrative, which he also directs, while full of good things and fine acting by a cast who use their own Christian names as character identification, is curiously muted and unconvincing. It sounds as though it’s being made up as it goes along, but that edgy quality is not devoid of doubts on our side, too.

The three men are all actors: Brian Doherty (so good in the Tom Murphy trilogy from Druid last year) as a jobbing ham with queries on motivation; Barnaby Power as a foot-mouse plugger in a humiliating advert; Oliver Rix as Barnaby’s flatmate who lands a Hollywood lead as Elastic Man opposite George Clo...

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