Sold

Synopsis

Granger & Co. Estate Agency. The bear pit. Anthony is fighting off a mid-life crisis, Gary is fighting for custody of his son and Hilary is fighting off a younger, prettier colleague. But in this world the sale comes first and everything else can take a back seat. Savagely funny and deeply touching, Sold is an acerbic comedy about the things we learn to live with and the true price of success.

Our Review:

22 April 2011

Four words every house hunter dreads: “Truth doesn’t move property”.

In the UK premiere of Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s Sold, this mercenary truth is the dilemma facing five agents competing to make the huge sale that has propitiously – and suspiciously – dropped onto the books of young estate agency Granger and Co.

Nasty ambition competes with human empathy as personal issues slowly seethe to the surface of the characters’ working life, as bolshie, abrasive Hillary (Abigail Thaw) – who secretly worries she’s over the hill – clashes with conscience stricken Anthony (Henry Everett). Colleague Stan (Jamie de Courcey) is touchingly try-hard, while charismatic boss Gary (Matthew Raymond) pushes them to perform.

Natalie Ibu, associate director for supporters of new writing, High Tide theatre company, directs the peaks and troughs of office tension well, eliciting strong, defined...

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Denis Mace - 14 May 2011:

Vicky Ellis has not a clue what makes good writing or good theatre if she sat through the same production that I saw last night. The writing is dreadful, the cast were OK at best and the direction was passable. This was one of the worst nights I have had in the theatre for a while and I won't it back!...

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