Mongrel Island
From: Thursday, 14th July 2011
To: Saturday, 6 August 2011
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Synopsis
A bittersweet, touching and darkly comic play from thrilling new writing talent Ed Harris. Commissioned by Soho Theatre this is a piece performed by the same company of actors as Realism, similarly exploring mind and memory and offering a perspective on how the workplace can invade and manipulate our humanity. And there's an 11 foot prawn called Jimmy.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 25 July 2011
Surrealism sings at the Soho, director Steve Marmion following Anthony Neilson’s Realism with a bizarre office play by Ed Harris that provides an engagingly original hour or so of theatre before treading water in the later stages. But this is a distinctive and pungent new play.
It’s also refreshingly weird without being irritating. Office play classics such as Vaclav Havel’s The Memorandum or Michael Frayn’s Alphabetical Order proffer metaphorical theatrics of political and personal application; Mongrel Island is just out and out peculiar, with night-time conversations sprouting between the filing cabinets, not to mention a giant prawn called Jimmy.
Marmion’s production is also very well designed by Hayley Grindle – her office, with an upstage inner sanctum for the boss, manages to be cluttered and ordinary as well as gleaming and surprising – and very w...
Creative
Ed Harris (Author)
Soho Theatre (Producer)
Steve Marmion (Director)
Hayley Grindle (Design)
Hayley Grindle (Lighting)
Tom Mills (Music)
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