Underneath the Lintel
From: Wednesday, 7th February 2007
To: Saturday, 31 March 2007
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Synopsis
Concerns a small town librarian, a man whose life is small, contained and almost perfectly banal. Suddenly the arrival of an overdue library book turns his world upside down and unleashes in him a hitherto unknown detective spirit he simply must find out who returned the book, as they owe the library a very large fine. The spirit of adventure and discovery soon outweighs any sense of professional duty and he embarks on a magical odyssey which takes on a wider and more significant meaning; he becomes convinced that he's searching for an alternative truth to Everyman.
Our Review:
13 February 2007
It may just be that Glen Berger’s ninety-minute monologue will appeal to admirers of The Da Vinci Code in its unravelling of the mystery of a missing library book. But it is hard to see how a West End run of the play would be justified without the participation of Richard Schiff, the American actor best known for his portrayal of Toby Ziegler, the White House communications director, in The West Wing.
The play opened in New York in the aftermath of the disaster of 9/11. One can see how the fragility of the story line – an obsessive search by the mild-mannered Dutch librarian into the fate of a missing travel guide, taken out by an unknown reader in 1873 – must have tugged at the sensibilities of an audience devastated by the attack on their city. Underneath the Lintel was variously tagged a metaphysical detective story, a confessional, a modern fable and a vision quest.
In truth, though, despite the jaunty ingratiation of Mr Schiff’s ...
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David Baxter - 8 March 2007:
An 80-minute lecture by a Dutch librarian, possibly the most boring man in the universe, did not sound like the most riveting entertainment. Despite Richard Sciff's exemplary performance Underneath the Lintel lived down to expectations. This is a story of futility: an ultimately inconclusive search for someone who might be a myth by an utterly nondescript man. Initially intriguing but ultimately contrived, Schiff's performance just about manages to hold interest but quite honestly the biggest mystery is why Glen Berger thought this a suitable subject for a play. David Baxter (7.3.07)...
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Glen Berger (Author)
Michael Edwards (Producer)
Carole Winter (Producer)
Paul Coxwell (Producer)
Maria Mileaf (Director)
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