Detroit
From: Tuesday, 8th May 2012
To: Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Synopsis
Set in a suburb outside a mid-sized American city, Detroit sees Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbours who've moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control with unexpected consequences. Shining a light on the middle class 'American Dream', the play is billed as "looking at what happens when we open ourselves up to something new."
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 16 May 2012
Coming from the Steppenwolf Theatre of Chicago in a new production by Austin Pendleton, Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit is a brutal, initially hilarious, suburban domestic comedy that dwindles slowly, and less convincingly, into desperation and disaster.
The more extreme it becomes, the less effective, as a quartet of new neighbours in a "first-ring” suburb on the edge of a medium-sized city (not necessarily Detroit, says the author) come together and fall apart around their backyard barbecues in an atavistic dance of destruction.
Yes, folks, suburbia can’t accommodate failure and boozed-up misery; it just packs up and keels over, quite literally in the case of these flimsy balsa wood shacks where the grooves on the patio windows are as inefficient as the parasol clips and the DIY decking on the back stoop.
Kenny and Sharon – sensationally well played by the unclassifiable comedian, Will Adamsdale, and Clare Dunne, last seen at the Nat...
Cast
Clare Dunne (Sharon)
Will Adamsdale (Kenny)
Stuart McQuarrie (Ben)
Justine Mitchell (Mary)
Christian Rodska (Frank)
Creative
Lisa D'Amour (Author)
National Theatre (Producer)
Austin Pendleton (Director)
Kevin Depinet (Design)
Susan Kulkarni (Costume)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
Andy Capell (Music)
Matthew Scott (Music)
John Leonard (Sound)
Arthur Pita (Choreographer)
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