Herding Cats
From: Tuesday, 7th December 2010
To: Saturday, 18 December 2010
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Synopsis
Funny, dark, gripping and intelligent, this powerful play by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon, poignantly defines a generation. Balancing the cocktail of 21st century life and teasing relationships is as impossible as herding cats for Michael, Justine and Saddo. Justine has an infuriating new boss. Michael works from home, talking to strangers. Saddo is one of those strangers... All three are living a comic fiction in an attempt to avoid the facts. Teetering on the edge, all three are heading inexorably towards Christmas.
Our Review:
Gill Kirk - 8 December 2010
Do see this play. Sadly, the opening scene is its weakest, but all too soon, you’re drawn into the pre-Christmas world of housemates Justine and Michael, who’ve landed in their thirties and mask their hollow, hungry loneliness with the demands of their jobs.
Olivia Hallinan’s Justine is initially rather mind-numbingly frantic in her frustration at new colleague, the soave, older - and from a distance, rather pathetic - Nigel. Soon enough, he seduces her mind, and she declares that this year, she will fall in love. But from the outset, her flatmate Michael, winningly played by Philip McGinley, is the more interestingly drawn of the pair. His ‘phone sex job pulls him into the dark, dark ambit of another older man, ‘Saddo’, who is subtly, sensitively and effortlessly depicted by David Michaels. While Justine and Michael may feel world-weary and sophisticatedly well past their twenties, neither is equipped for the psychologica...
Cast
Olivia Hallinan (Justine)
Philip McGinley (Michael)
David Michaels (Saddo)
Creative
Lucinda Coxon (Author)
Anthony Banks (Director)
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