Thom Pain (based on nothing)
From: Friday, 3rd September 2004
To: Friday, 24 September 2004
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Thom Pain (based on nothing) is a disturbingly funny play that blends theatre and comedy, and tackles modern life and love head-on.
Our Review:
6 September 2004
NOTE: This review dates from August 2004 and this production's original run at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
According to Walpole, life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think. Though Thom Pain is a man who both feels and thinks deeply, he comes down firmly on the side of tragedy. And yet, while the laughter is never comfortable, as we share the fictitious Pain’s pain in New York playwright Will Eno’s slightly surreal 75-minute monologue, the tragic becomes comic.
The play starts in darkness and only after some fumbling and a confused recitation of a dictionary definition of fear - which itself defines, in far more precise ways, all that follows - do the lights snap on to reveal the man behind the title. With a rigid restraint matched by his outfit of plain black suit, white shirt, black tie and glasses, James Urbaniak’s nerdish Pain brings to mind Michael Douglas’ psychopathic office worker from the 1993 film Falling Down.
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Cast
Creative
Will Eno (Author)
Soho Theatre Company (in association with Chantal Arts and Theatre and Naked Angels NYC) (Producer)
Hal Brooks (Director)
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