JB Shorts
From: Monday, 14th January 2013
To: Wednesday, 16 January 2013
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Our Review:
15 January 2013
The short play format limits the ability of writers to fully develop ideas but J B Shorts avoids this limitation with a varied programme of four plays with strong performances and memorable stories.
On the day of his mother’s funeral Waz (Oliver Wilson) is desperate for company and meets Carol (Jeni Howarth Williams) who is just desperate. Ian Kershaw’s A Christmas Carol is a bawdy but heart-warming tale with a striking, vulnerable but not maudlin, central performance from Jeni Howarth Williams. Miranda Parker’s understated direction moves the story at a natural pace so that by the conclusion you are mentally urging the couple to take a chance on friendship.
There is a sharp contrast with Lindsay Williams’s morality tale The Bombmaker with its constantly shifting perceptions of right and wrong. In Tehran a scientist (Amir Rahimzadeh) whose work with uranium may facilitate bomb making is offered a choice between de...
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Real Life Theatre Co (Company)
Ian Kershaw (Author)
James Quinn (Author)
Dave Simpson (Author)
Diane Whitely (Author)
Lindsay Williams (Author)
Miranda Parker (Director)
Martin Gibbons (Director)
Caroline Clegg (Director)
Adam Quayle (Director)
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