2Graves

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Our Review:

6 November 2006

If 2Graves got two raves I’d be very surprised; even one might be pushing it for this distinctly disappointing opener to yet another new era at the benighted little Arts Theatre by Leicester Square.

Paul Sellar’s Cockney criminal monologue of a son’s revenge for his father’s stitch-up in a darts contest is performed by Jonathan Moore in a black T-shirt and black shorts, revealing chunky thighs. His hair is long and dank, his expression gone and blank. He resembles an underpowered vegetarian version of Meat Loaf.

The verse is an un-scanned doggerel of mixed quality, mostly low, and the jokes, such as they are, reside merely in the shallow waters of hackneyed idiom and random East End topography. The whole experience is like Steven Berkoff on an off night, without a wind-up tension of any sort, or the genuine Berkoff sorcery, and with some oddly placed plot cadences that fail to kick home.

Moore’s Jack sees his father lose all hope of “mak...

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86.130.26.120) - 8 November 2006:

This is a brilliant production--spare, powerful, bold. Yvonne McDevitt brings out the drama in Paul Sellar's resourceful theatre-poem with unobtrusive, precise artistry. Jonathan Moore turns in an amazing performance, commanding the space with wit and horror. Not to be missed!...

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