Burnt
From: Wednesday, 17th February 2010
To: Friday, 19 February 2010
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Burnt is a story about being locked in the past. Four people go to a beautiful and remote location where tensions erupt threatening to destroy the bonds between them. This is a tale of what happens when you play with fire. Featuring an original score performed live by composer Michael Cretu, Burnt is a brooding comic drama about the limits of trust and the secret bargain at the heart of every relationship.
Our Review:
20 February 2010
It’s always interesting to see a new piece of theatre and the vibrant Contact Theatre is an ideal venue for playwrights to try out their stuff. Burnt is a new play tackling the complex subject of relationships and attempts to make a cutting comment on contemporary society. Sadly it doesn’t achieve this; the main problem being that the play simply isn’t very original with the subject matter having been tackled much more successfully in classic plays such as Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and the sublime comedy Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh.
Despite a running time of just an hour, writer Conor McKee manages to establish the four characters quickly and effectively, although from thereon there’s not a great deal of character development and all four characters are fairly one dimensional and a litt...
Creative
Conor McKee (Author)
Wyllie Longmore (Director)
Michael Cretu (Music)
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