Monkey's Uncle
From: Wednesday, 5th October 2005
To: Saturday, 5 November 2005
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Synopsis
Georges and George are writing a play in which life seems determined to imitate art. Troubled marriages, casual affairs, professional jealousy and an organ grinder's monkey are some of the ingredients in David Lewis' play. This is a play that begins with the great farceur Feydeau immersed in one of his own plots which then spins furiously forward into the 21st century.
Our Review:
10 October 2005
David Lewis's fourth play to be premiered at the Orange Tree is another wonderful example of this theatre in the round's speciality of doorless farces. Like Stoppard and Frayn have done so successfully in the past, though, Monkey's Uncle is both a farce and an exploration of the nature of farce. Fortunately, Lewis' self-conscious, postmodern take on the genre avoids the danger of becoming merely a tediously self-referential exercise and manages to be at once genuinely funny and thought-provoking.
The first two acts take place in belle époque Paris, where we see farce writer Georges Feydeau (an engagingly bemused David Leonard) caught up in an increasingly complicated web of sexual shenanigans from which he struggles to extricate himself. Awakening from a disturbed sleep after a night of debauchery, he tries unsuccessfully to placate his much-put-upon wife Marianne (sympathetically played by Amanda Royle) while concealing his mistress, the cabaret perfo...
Creative
David Lewis (Author)
Orange Tree Theatre (Producer)
Sam Walters (Director)
Vicki Fifield (Design)
Kevin Leach (Lighting)
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