Speaking in Tongues
From: Friday, 18th September 2009
To: Saturday, 12 December 2009
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Synopsis
Meet Pete and Jane and Leon and Sonja. Pete is married to Jane. Sonja is married to Leon. Pete meets Sonja in a bar and they go back to a cheap hotel room. Leon meets Jane in a bar and they go back to a cheap hotel room. A double infidelity. Except Pete and Sonja don't go through with it. And so starts a chain of events that impact on the lives of others with devastating consequences.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 29 September 2009
Not so much a thriller as a diagrammatic puzzle, Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues is an engaging, challenging play that falls at the last fence because the language is not as witty, strange or poetic as the narrative outline. In the end, you feel, so what?
Two married couples are simultaneously apart on the brink of adultery in a hotel bedroom with each other’s other half. One of the men, Leon, is a policeman who, in the second act, investigates the disappearance of a psychiatrist whose shoe was found in a bush in the first act.
John Simm, making another impressive West End appearance following his performance in Elling two years ago, plays the cop with a dry, detached precision, while Toby Frow’s gloomy-in-a-good-way production also boasts fine technical contributions from Lucy Cohu, Kerry Fox and, as Simm’s more jug-eared doppelganger, almost, Ian Hart.
These four play all nine characters in a set of v...
Latest User Review
Carrie Cohen - 6 November 2009:
At last a play to challenge as well as entertain. If you want candyfloss then catch a trite musical (I found Sister Act inane); if you want theatre, beautiful writing and compelling performances then Speaking For Tongues is for you. It's clever and contrived and thought-provoking. The best thing since God of Carnage. I urge all lovers of drama to take up one of the many deals on offer and exercise your brain; enjoy the irony. ...
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Andrew Bovell (Author)
Blue Horizon Productions (Producer)
Jessica de Rothschild (for Sweet Pea Productions) (Producer)
Toby Frow (Director)
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