Audacity

Synopsis

Philip is going through a messy divorce. To make himself some money and give his life a boost of adrenalin, he devises a cunning scheme to rob the London department store. He needs help, however, so he enlists John and Dave as his partners in crime. The plot seems to be going well - until John and Dave’s wives join forces to investigate their husbands’ odd behaviour.

Our Review:

31 August 2004

The only thing that is seriously audacious about Audacity, a play written and directed by Simon Mawdsley that is being billed as a "comedy thriller", is how obvious, plodding and contrived it actually is, without being remotely comic, chilling or thrilling as intended.

Originally produced in 1999, its revival now suggests the serious paucity of decent plays available on the fringe circuit, and how desperately it seeks to be something else: a West End play of a much earlier generation.

In its manners and mannerisms, it feels like one of those desperately hokey and old-fashioned plays that were once a West End staple but are now thankfully extinct, rendered finally obsolete by the cracker of them all, Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, that simultaneously sent up the genre while also supplying the definitive version of it. That's to say, it's one of those plays where nothing is ever quite what it seems, and it seeks to grip and confound in ...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (62.252.0.10) - 2 September 2004:

Good play and enjoyable evening watching real drama in an intimate and setting - great to be so close to the action ...

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