Johnny Come Lately
From: Tuesday, 6th November 2012
To: Saturday, 10 November 2012
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
A mother and daughter take in a mysterious lodger with devastating consequences. Who is he and where has he come from? This is a funny, alarming and provocative tale of outsiders, with a clash of cultures, shoplifting, lottery tickets and revolutionary acts!
Our Review:
7 November 2012
Dark humour and social comment pervade in Johnny Come Lately, a new play from the theatre company, Coal.
Written collaboratively under the direction of John Wright, the piece combines physical comedy with satire to present three different lives. Erika Poole plays a tattooed, boozing benefit cheat living in a council flat with her slightly her down trodden and disturbed daughter (Annie Fitzmaurice). The daughter regularly accompanies her mother on ‘shopping trips’ where they pick pocket people while her mother sits in a wheelchair pretending to be disabled.
They are clichéd scum of the earth and Lois Maskell’s impressive set with its cracked walls and doors illustrates the utter hopelessness of their situation. Into their lives enters Amr El-Bayoumi’s non-specific middle-Eastern man who can’t speak English – already the Daily Mail would be having a field day- and the three find themselves living together in a...
Creative
Annie Fitzmaurice (Author)
Coal (in association with The Royal Exchange Theatre) (Company)
John Wright (Director)
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