Lifecoach

Synopsis

Wendy needs help. Unfortunately so does her life coach! Wendy's life is a mess. Her boss is losing patience, her boyfriend has no respect for her and she can't speak up for herself. She needs help and she needs it fast. Colin is a lifecoach. That's what he does. He gives guidance. He helps people to see where they're going wrong and puts them back on track. He's incisive and rational. He's quick to see where others are going wrong and quick to help them put it right. But what happens when Colin loses his way? What happens when the coach loses direction?

Our Review:

23 May 2008

Nick Reed’s new play Lifecoach explores a now familiar idea – that a therapist/client relationship is a mutually beneficial arrangement which the shrink uses to his own ends as much as the client’s.

The shrink of this show is Colin, played with brusque charm by Phill Jupitus. Colin is divorced and using lifecoaching as a way of both proving his worth to his ex-wife and her fishmonger lover, and as a fast-track to retirement through helping a series of corporate clients get “one last shove up the greasy pole”.

But lowly office PA Wendy (Amy Darcy) is different. A genuine case for therapy, Colin suddenly finds a new lease of life by helping someone who actually needs it. Wendy has issues with her mother, her boyfriend, her job and pretty much anything else you care to mention, and through a series of role-plays and diagrams, Colin sets out to change her.

The play is well-suited to the intimate space of Trafal...

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David - 12 June 2008:

Sorry - should have been 4-stars but the prblems posting....

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