Absurdia - A Resounding Tinkle/The Gladly Otherwise/The Crimson Hotel
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1 August 2007
Life, amorphous, unpredictable and a bit of a mystery, is, with luck, rendered containable by art. We may not know why we are here, but, with the help of narrative, we can attempt to give events and emotions shape and meaning. The theatre of the absurd, reaching its apotheosis in the 1950s, just before realism (helped by television) got its grip on playwrights, acknowledges more truthfully than naturalism ever can that existence has no plot. This can either seem terribly depressing or hilarious - or, possibly (as in Beckett) both at once.
At the Donmar Warehouse (a place which, in touch with the zeitgeist, rarely loses whatever plot there is), three short plays under the title Absurdia, exuberantly directed by Douglas Hodge, celebrate a revival of Absurdism. The programme lasts a mere 90 minutes, but it provides an opportunity to see two plays by the octogenarian (and until recently almost forgotten) NF Simpson - A Resounding Tinkle and G...
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rds - 18 August 2007:
Mmhh! Well I could have left during the first act. OK, the Pythons were a huge success as were the Goons before them, but they stand out as exceptional examples of a genre the British don't really understand or like. The french and the italians would have been rolling in the aisles last night, but not us. Oh no, I even spotted a few members of the audience asleep, and many more looking either puzzeled or very bored! As I sat there getting more and more fed up with it all my minded drifted to that master of surreal writing David Rennick, and I wondered why he hasn't, to my knowledge anyway, written for the theatre. I desperately wanted to get home by the end of it all to have a fix Of Victor Meldrew. Michael Frayn's piece was by far the best part of the evening, but unfortunately, after knocking their socks off performing for one and a half hours, this very british audience gave the cast such a lukewarm applause they didn't even bother to come back on for a second bow - I think that said it all. ...
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N F Simpson (Author)
Michael Frayn (The Crimson Hotel) (Author)
Donmar Warehouse (Producer)
Douglas Hodge (Director)
Vicki Mortimer (Design)
Paule Constable (Lighting)
Carolyn Downing (Sound)
Carolina Valdes (movement) (Director)
Stu Barker (Music)
Douglas Hodge (Music)
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