Kiss Me Like You Mean It
From: Wednesday, 16th May 2001
To: Saturday, 16 June 2001
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Synopsis
It's three a.m. on a mid-summer night, and in a shabby Victorian terraced house in Manchester Don and Edie having a party. In the back garden Tony and Ruth meet, thanks to a stolen can of beer. As the night wears on, love is definitely in the air, as is the scent of cheap lager - and even cheaper aftershave. A sharp and funny play for anyone with a heart, romantic yet heart-breaking. Please note: The production contains sexually explicit material and is recommended for 16+
Our Review:
23 May 2001
"In the real dark night of the soul", wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, "it is always three o'clock in the morning". Whether or not Chris Chibnall had this quote in mind when writing Kiss Me Like You Mean It is uncertain. What can be stated with certainty is that Chibnall's debut full-length production, set around 3am on a midsummer's night, is likely to stamp his identity firmly on the creative scheme of things.
The first product of the Soho Theatre's commendable Writers' Attachment Programme, this is a drama of fleeting romance pitted against enduring love. From a tumbledown stage backdrop (think Hansel and Gretel set on Coronation Street), emerge Catherine McCormack (Ruth) and Jason Hughes (Tony). It's reached that time of the party when the booze is at a premium, and a total stranger might just be the answer to your lovelorn woes.
The pair's opening exchanges are nervy and rather nerdy, with Chibnall prepared to take some risks here. It asks a fai...
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USER: Whatsonstage.com - 23 May 2001:
After the stingy overnight notices of de Jongh (Standard) and (uncharacteristically) Billington (in the Guardian), how refreshing to find your affirmative notice that really reflects what I actually saw! This is a beautifully textured, lovingly observed and stunningly acted play about one love story beginning just as another is ending. The author, Chris Chibnall, makes one of the most assured new writing debuts since Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing; and like the original production of that play (at the Bush), Chibnall could not have hoped for more truthful and beautifully etched performances than the ones he gets here, generous, unselfish, warm and ultimately heartbreaking. Bravo! ...
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Chris Chibnall (Author)
Soho Theatre (Producer)
Abigail Morris (Director)
Will Hargreaves (Design)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
John A Leonard (Sound)
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