Complicit

Synopsis

There’s a hard road, there’s an easy road - which would you take? Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ben Kritzer finds himself in front of a Supreme Court Grand Jury faced with his own choice. A thrilling look at our current political climate. As liberties are stripped away can you ever know what is being perpetrated in your name?

Our Review:

29 January 2009

The Richard Dreyfuss affair with the London theatre has not been happy. Some years ago he had a modest success, and mixed reviews, in a Neil Simon comedy. More recently he was dropped from The Producers before the show even opened. And now he’s lumbered with a boring role in a boring play that he’s not been able to fully master.

Joe Sutton’s Complicit is further confirmation that Old Vic supremo Kevin Spacey, who directs it, is still having trouble finding good new plays. This one drones on about a writer, Benjamin Kritzer (Dreyfuss), whose book about torture techniques in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay has landed him in a court case. As the programme carries a disclaimer on the play’s allegations against the US government, not even the Old Vic can stand all that squarely behind its own production.

We are asked to consider whether the publication of this book has made the country less safe, but as the details are denie...

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Latest User Review

fred - 21 February 2009:

This is a terrible play directed in a dreary unimaginative way. Kevin Spacey must bear the major responsibility for choosing this play and directing it so poorly. Why the actors wanted to be in it is a complete mystery. As for Richard Dreyfuss, he got through the lines but it's a sad reflection when that's all that you can say about a performance. At the curtain call, he seemed extremely embarrassed. I'm not surprised....

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