Drunk Enough to Say I Love You

Synopsis

Jack would do anything for Sam. Sam would do anything. A story about a man who fell in love with America.

Our Review:

23 November 2006

Caryl Churchill’s new play is like an explosive capsule, left on the stage to undermine our state of well-being. It also makes you feel helpless, limp with outrage and beset with insignificance. It is just 45 minutes long, but it contains a cosmology of experience in the fractious love affair between two men who run the world.

One is American, the other is British. One is Sam, as in Uncle, the other Jack, as in Union. They speak in unfinished sentences of several words each. They are suspended in space on a sofa, which rises higher with their acceleration of plans and policies. Sam is an important government official. Jack, whom he met in a bar and can hardly remember, is a family man, torn between domestic loyalty and the ultimate dependency that the surge of power and protection brings.

Theirs is, indeed, “a special relationship,” which thrives on intervention and aggressive intent. The word “democracy” is never mentioned. Nor are “moral values” or the idea that the co...

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172.142.249.117) - 3 January 2007:

Only 40 mins (they must have speeded it up the night I went) whoopee! Now come on all you 4 & 5 stars this piece wasn't that good - by any standards - now was it? I am increasingly of the view that a society should exist for the protection of audiences from the excesses of writers, such as Ms Churchill, when they have lost the plot! ...

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