Top Story
From: Saturday, 5th January 2013
To: Saturday, 2 February 2013
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Synopsis
A meteor the size of LA is about to hit LA. In London two friends, Gus and Talfryn, spend their last seven days avoiding the outside world (especially girlfriends!), reinventing the rules of chess, watching the Sexiest Woman on Earth, Chrissie Craven, reporting the news and fantasising about saving the world... all without leaving their sofa.
Our Review:
8 January 2013
If a comet was streaking its way towards Earth and set to bring fiery doom to the world in a week's time, what would you do? Stockpile booze? Book a flight halfway around the world to get a front row seat for the apocalypse? Or just veg out on the couch?
The latter forms the main premise for Top Story, with two young blokes sitting on the sofa watching the world's reactions unfold on the telly. Though Lewis Moody and Ed Pinker as Talfryn and Gus make a likeable enough pair, even the director of a daytime sitcom would discard some of their snippets of circular dialogue.
We're rewarded with an ounce of frenetic energy somewhere around the end of the first half of the play, written by Sebastian Michel and directed by Swedish-Hungarian Adam Berzsenyi Bellaagh, but quality control should have severely trimmed the slow repartee of the two twentysomethings.
Watching the pair unobserved are two apparently post-modern angels in white NASA-cum-removal van su...
Cast
Lewis Goody (Gus)
Ed Pinker (Talfryn)
Josephine Kime (Chrissie Craven)
Richard Matthews (TV Personality)
Andy Hawthorne (TV Personality)
James Messer (Angel Raoul)
Stephen Schreiber (Angel Alphon)
Creative
Sebastian Michael (Author)
Optimist Creations (Producer)
Cherry Picked Pictures (Producer)
Adam Berzsenyi Bellaagh (Director)
Moritz Behrens (Design)
Richard Lambert (Lighting)
Geoff Widdowson (Sound)
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