All New People
From: Wednesday, 22nd February 2012
To: Saturday, 28 April 2012
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Synopsis
Zach Braff, star of Scrubs and The Last Kiss brings his Off-Broadway comedy All New People to the West End in Spring.
The dead of winter, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Charlie (Zach Braff) has hit rock bottom. Away from the rest of the world, this perfect escape is interrupted by a motley parade of misfits who show up and change his plans. A hired beauty, a fireman, and an eccentric British real estate agent desperately trying to stay in the country all suddenly find themselves tangled together in a beach house where the mood is anything but sunny.
This angst-fuelled comedy saw New York's Second Stage Theatre packed out nightly and received rave reviews from US critics, with its present day dilemmas and take on four very different characters' way of life.
Zach Braffmakes his playwriting debut with the play - having penned, directed and starred in the 2004 film Garden State as well as making his London stage debut
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 29 February 2012
The opening image is brilliant: a guy on his birthday with his head in a noose standing on a table next to a box of Cheerios. That guy is Zach Braff, playing Charlie Bloom, in his own off-Broadway play about his own Long Island beach summers… in the winter down time.
Zach is the star of the TV medical comedy series Scrubs and his own not inconsiderable indie movie Garden State, and in playing his own lead (he didn’t do so Off-Broadway last year), he may realise he forgot to write himself enough good speeches to keep Charlie fully in the picture.
His story of guilt and failure gets submerged in parallel fables of the other characters: the desperate estate agent, Emma (Eve Myles), who finds him strung up and all strung out; the dope head fireman, Myron (Paul Hilton), who answers an alarm call; and the hooker, Kim (Susannah Fielding), sent as a gift on a do-anything mission from Manhattan by his best pal, who owns the place.
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Latest User Review
David Baxter - 12 April 2012:
Like many theatregoers I have a preferred critic whose views most often coincide with my own. In my case it is Charles Spencer's broadsheet highbrow knowledge (which I could never aspire to) with a healthy dose of populism. He was virtually alone in not trashing Zach Braff's All New People. I love the acidic American East Coast humour of Neil LaBute also found in Becky Shaw which Peter DuBois also directed and for most of the 95 minutes running time I thoroughly enjoyed Braff's debut play. Yes, the four characters are pretty irritating and self-obsessed and the secret revelations don't amount to much, but the visual and verbal gags are often very funny. Unfortunately, it seemed to be building towards a dramatic twist which failed to materialise but Braff's taut script is superbly played by a terrific cast. It has been claimed that the character of Kim, the high cost "escort", is a cliched male fantasy but so what when she is played by the stunning Susannah Fielding, previously of the RSC, who gives one of the sexiest (and funniest) performances I have seen for a long time. All New People may not have anything profound to offer except an hour or so of entertainment but sometimes that's preferable to three hours of Eugene O'Neill's misery. Incidentally, who knew Scrubs or Zach Braff was so popular over here? I haven't seen so many people around a stage door since Orlando Bloom appeared at this same theatre....
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Zach Braff (Author)
Peter DuBois (Director)
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