Lucky Dog

Synopsis

Eddie and Sue settle down for Christmas dinner. The wine is poured, the crackers are pulled and the weather forecasts snow. But the dog won't eat her giblets and the telephone keeps ringing.

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (81.174.146.218) - 1 June 2004:

Very dull indeed, and without justification for that dullness. You feel nothing for any of the characters, which is just as well, since nothing happens to any of them. The dog, which you never see, is presumably supposed to be a metaphor for something, but the playwright gives you no reason to care what that might be. It lasts an hour and a half with no interval (lest everyone leaves) and the only way I could keep amused was to run a private sweepstake on which of my buttocks would fall asleep first. If you left Waiting For Godot thinking "If only it had been a bit longer" then this might suit you. Otherwise, you will find it as tedious as counting the hairs on the back of a man's head (something I actually did towards the end of the play for want of stimulus)....

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