I Could've Been Better
From: Wednesday, 3rd October 2012
To: Saturday, 13 October 2012
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Synopsis
By thirty, some people choose to rip their own throats out in despair. I chose to enter an over-10s swimming competition... I could've been better. Here is the story of how. Somewhere between stand-up comedy and theatre, Idiot Child make funny, unusual and bleak work that always places the audience at its heart. Combining movement, film and simple, engaging storytelling, the company tell playful tales of beautiful failure. Idiot Child might be familiar to local audiences thanks to their theatrical and often darkly comic, semi-autobiographical pieces that have included last year's tender ode to loneliness, You're Not Doing It Right. It's good to have them back...
Our Review:
Gill Kirk - 3 October 2012
James is the kind of man you’d call “a bit sad” if you were being charitable: a railway worker who’s never been on a train; an adult in a feud with a showy-offy child. But Idiot Child prise open the oyster, and give us the grit that makes this pearl of a man.
As James, Jimmy Whiteaker delivers a walloping punch of a performance. From the ridiculous to the pitiful, from the admirable to the heart-rending, James is a man who could put you to shame with his integrity, honesty and persistence.
Chris Gylee’s playful set, which includes a swimming pool of sweeties, reflects the All-Sorts nature of the piece: toys represent people; a Take-Hart paper plane-making session and Duncan Goodhew-focused visualization exercises. We seem to wander off at tangents, but we’re travelling with safe hands to our final destination.
Co-writers Whiteaker and Anna Harpin who also directs, have created a truly magnetic and unusual world that distils the inanity of everyday routine then...
Creative
Anna Harpin (Author)
Jimmy Whiteaker (Author)
Bristol Old Vic Ferment (Producer)
Idiot Child (Company)
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