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The open road in three pieces
BANK AND OTER PLAYS
King’s Head
WINNER of the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing 2006, Sam Thomas brings three of his pieces of work to life for a short run at The King’s Head this week with the support of Grey Light Productions.
The centrepiece, BANK, follows a group of city merchant banker colleagues on a team-building excursion, amusingly opening with office-like chanting on the importance of team building.
The leader of the gang, arrogant Gazza (Nick Richards) begins a torrent of teasing upon his placid colleague, Frank (Matthew Bulgo). Colleagues departed, Frank is left alone and from out of nowhere a cowboy (James McNeill) appears before him.
Surreal, yet comically timed, the interaction between the lone cowboy and Frank is superbly delivered. Like a guardian angel, the lone cowboy offers advice, probing him: “Do you like the open road, Frank?” This quest of searching for meaning “embracing or rejecting the open road” seems to remain a central theme, pulled together in strands throughout all three pieces.
Ticky Tock, the opening work of the three pieces witnesses two opposites, Dan Pan (Christian Edwards) and Mike (Joseph Garton) meeting in quite ordinary circumstances but what follows leaves a nasty sense of unease as the naive Dan is, quite literally, stripped of his dignity.
Telemaphone, apparently still a work in progress, somehow manages to sit carefully among Bank and Ticky Tock, revealing the development of a bond between a call centre girl and the man on the other end.
The tightly knitted pieces by this young writer, exploring the core of real human emotion while projecting a high level of comedy, is a pure delight and well worth catching before it ends this week.
Until March 4
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