How to Act Around Cops

Synopsis

Logan Brown and Matthew Benjamin's hilarious take on casual carnage is a laugh-a-minute, fast-paced classic cop-caper, with drugs, guns and bodies in car trucks. But it combines this tale of sexy young things behaving badly with a twister of a morality tale, begging the question - what would you do if you could get away with it? Fringe First Award Edinburgh Festival 2004. Best Playwright and Best Director New York Fringe Festival 2003.

Our Review:

18 October 2004

In Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, the murderer-narrator is driven to insanity, and confession, by what he imagines is the deafening sound of the still-beating heart of his victim, whose corpse he buried beneath the floorboards of their home.

The characters in How to Act Around Cops are plagued by a similar noise, an indeterminate pounding. Is it in their collective heads – perhaps a by-product of carbon monoxide poisoning, racing adrenaline, paranoia, guilt – or is there a battered girl in the boot of their car? And if there really is a girl, will they choose to do anything in time to save her?

Since its Fringe First-winning UK premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, this modern Gothic, occasionally farcical, thriller has become much more focused. On a Las Vegas night, Barnum and Madson are pulled over for a minor speeding infraction by the unnamed rookie Cop. Madson’s police phobia and epileptic amnesia coupled ...

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81.134.125.173) - 20 October 2004:

I really liked this show. It's quirky and unpredictable and very original. The cast of five create a believable yet absurd world with hardly any set or props, with the excellent lighting creating just the right atmosphere for a car at night and a motel room. A little treat....

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