Other Hands

Synopsis

In a world of systematic, high-speed technology, some people expect to live life as efficiently as the machines they depend on... and when a machine breaks down, there is usually someone with the skills to fix it. But in an age where things that don't work and can't be mended are thrown away, what do we do with something as human and messy as love?

Our Review:

20 February 2006

Laura Wade has had one hell of a year. The Critics Circle Most Promising playwright, Pearson Best Play award winner and joint George Devine award winner, she has made her name as an excavator in the morbid - if dealing with death can be called morbid. As Wade has often pointed out, it's more often to do with how we live life.

Colder Than Here and Breathing Corpses revealed Wade as a writer with a keen sense of the absurd. Other Hands now adds a further colour to the Wade palette. Less of a sleeping thriller than Corpses or direct contemplation of death as in Colder, it casts a sometimes tender, sometimes blanched eye over the current state of relationships.

To that extent it's a small play, deeply domestic and circumscribed within a quartet of characters. Its observation, however, is scalpel acute. In Wade’s distillation of how the IT age affects us – rocketing stress levels, feelings of incompetence when...

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213.86.133.215) - 8 March 2006:

I think there is a really interesting play going on. The cast are all good, but some of the plot doesn't work. Overall I feel the production doesn't quite work. And to be honest I don't know where the fault is. Perhaps it need to be have another character? Plot Change Or perhaps the Director didn't get it?...

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