Pornography, Tricycle Theatre - review
The 7/7 July bombings form the backdrop to Stephen Smith's challenging production at Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre which was a hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
7 August 2009
Rating: 5/5
When was the last time you thought about where you were, and how you felt, during the 7/7 bombings? Simon Stephen’s darkly comic and starkly evocative play brings home the human cost to London and its people.
A series of interweaving monologues are brought to a life by a cast of varying characters who crowd the Tricycle’s intimate stage. Their various dramas play out in Tube-like proximity, conversations overlapping, eyes almost meeting, fingers almost touching.
The spectre of death is omnipresent, adding a fatalistic throb to the humour which courses through the dialogue. There are the convincing incestual lovers, the ginger schoolboy with a perverted crush on his teacher, two lonely academics, one discontented wife and a young father from Leeds who sets out from home at daybreak on a deathly mission.
Terrorism might form the backdrop but it doesn’t dominate this challenging production. Instead it’s the human threads which provide a searingly realistic insight into London life as it was before the unthinkable occurred.
To 29 August, Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR, 020 7328 1000
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