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Synopsis Jeff is the doorman or 'security officer as he prefers to be known. He's a laid back, wisecracking guy who always tries to do the right thing but usually ends up getting it wrong. When he is attracted to Dawn and gets in-between her and her macho police partner, then becomes embroiled in the family problems of his security captain, it seems that his incompetent honesty is going to lose him everything. LOBBY HERO celebrates Lonergan's perceptive characterisation and innate understanding of human weakness. The original US director Mark Brokaw (of award-winning productions such as THIS IS OUR YOUTH, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN) will direct a British based cast. American Imports 2002. UK Premiere
Dates: Opens 10 April 2002. Apr 4,5,8,9,12,15,16,17,19,22,23,24,26,29,30, May 1,3 at 19:30, Apr 10 at 19:00, Apr 11,13,18,20,25,27, May 2,4, at 15:00 and 19:30
A play about a group of characters who can't stop talking (and by doing so, digging their own metaphorical graves) runs a certain obvious risk...and while initially I admired the eloquence of the writing and of all the characters, by the interval (an hour and a quarter later) I was wearying of their endless verbosity. (As one character says "I know I get long-winded". Er, and how.) Some acute psychologcal insights, some gripping power-play, and some promising moral plot strands, all finally get rather lost amid the compulsion of four lively and intriguing ( but ultimately rather unsympathetic?) characters to say everything at length, three or four times. The comparison with Mamet in an earlier review is telling: at 20-25 mins shorter this would have been a far more effective evening . Nothing but praise for the performances though - immensely detailed and perfectly judged.
Kevin Mandry - USER: Whatsonstage.com
Re-opened in 1992. Seats 254. 1999 - Ambassador Theatre Group takes over from the Associated Capital Theatres as the landlord of the Donmar Warehouse. 2002 - Michael Grandage succeeds Sam Mendes as Artistic Director of the Donmar. Nick Frankfort succeeds Caro Newling as Executive Producer.
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