Gambling
From: Wednesday, 17th March 2010
To: Saturday, 10 April 2010
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Synopsis
Combining unflinching first-hand testimony with exhilarating physicality, gambling propels you psychologically, physically, and emotionally into the heart of compulsion. Feel the rush, the raw emotion, the pain and the pleasure that is addiction.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 23 March 2010
The highs and lows of addiction mark the slick 50-minute Gambling show devised and directed by Raz Shaw, himself a reformed gambler, though not as intriguingly celebrated as the hero of Dostoevsky’s novella, lately embodied on the London stage in Prokofiev’s opera at Covent Garden.
Shaw’s piece is really a stage poem for three actors – Amanda Lawrence, Sean Campion and Will Mannering – on a fruit machine of a design by Hannah Clark, lit (by Anna Watson) with a battery of bulbs and neon strips that convey unbridled joy and elation, then serve as cells of depression.
With modern dance movement by Georgina Lamb, the actors represent moods and pictures of gambling and only belatedly develop any sort of narrative tension. The show is presented as a warning – with the cooperation of the National Problem Gambling Clinic – which is a bit of a downer; the best gamblers I’ve ever known never lose.
The thrill of the chase is searingly uttered by Amanda Lawrence, se...
Creative
Raz Shaw (Author)
Georgina Lamb (Author)
Eleanor Lloyd (in association with Soho Theatre) (Producer)
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