Lobby Hero

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.

Our Review:

2 July 2002

Note: The following review dates from April 2002 and the production's initial run at the Donmar Warehouse.

If David Mamet long ago cornered the American playwriting market in transcribing the inarticulate rhythms of everyday verbal interactions into vivid theatrical dialogue, he now has an heir apparent.

Kenneth Lonergan, already represented in London by his raw and revealing first play This Is Our Youth at the West End's Garrick Theatre, now has a more mature, if ultimately less bracing, later work being presented as part of the Donmar Warehouse's American Imports season.

Lonergan's is an original and frequently surprising voice, with a real gift for characterisation if not yet situation. But if the plots of neither play are exactly taxing, they're both efficient and sufficient to provide a context within which to meet his vividly realised characters.

Lobby Hero - set in the lobby of a Manhattan apartment b...

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com - 16 July 2002:

Dire. Some witty moments and the cast are good, but the story is slow and a lot of questions are left unanswered at the end. Not a comedy or engaging in any way. Could not wait for it to end....

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