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Published: 1 November 2007

Forget the plot – the actors make it a memorable play

FORGET-ME-KNOT
Courtyard Theatre

IMAGINE the plight of poor old Robert Zeinfeld. Found wandering the streets of Leicester at 4am, without even the slightest clue how he got there. Total amnesia. And only a bruised head and a suspicious policeman for company. Not an experience you’d get over in a hurry, you might imagine.
Forget Me Knot, David Tristram’s debut production for the Courtyard Theatre’s newly converted premises in Hoxton, begins with comic promise.
The plot is imaginative and initially engaging, a mystery man (Craig Murray) sits in a police station unable to remember who he is. The fatigued but amiable DI Monroe (Martyn Hill) tries to solve this dilemma. He suspects the man might be Robert Zeinfeld, an accountant who went missing on a recent business trip to Blackpool.
Mrs Zeinfeld (Iris Veneti) is slightly less sure about this and as the play progresses, the audience find themselves wrestling a plot with more twists than a buckled slinky.
As the play embarks on a comical and at times entertaining journey to establish whether or not the supposed amnesia sufferer is indeed Robert Zeinfeld, the more confused it becomes.
The serpentine twists and turns do begin to wear thin after a while, but fortunately the unyielding and inspired performances of Martyn Hill as the agitated police officer and Craig Murray as the man in search of his memory help to divert attention away from the narrative mishaps.
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