Thanks for your comment. You've clearly given the...

2009-02-14T23:35:27.446Z

Thanks for your comment. You've clearly given the revelations more thought than I have. To be honest, I didn't get past the fact that they weren't needed and were so crudely handled. But yes, as you say, even if there had to be revelations, the ones chosen were pretty poor.

I'm always interested to read your analysis of the...

2009-02-12T23:15:29.309Z

I'm always interested to read your analysis of the performances you go to see. Its nice - after a hefty period of time spent lurking - to let you know.

I think you hit the proverbial napper of the nail in your analysis of Fifteen Minutes. The chill which descends on audiences during the "emotional" bits of plays can be electric. In Oran Mor on Wednesday, the coolness of revelation felt vacuously manipulative. Certainly bolted-on, as is the convention with surface-to-depth type paired dramas.

Not to mention the more than chauvinistic whiff attending the woefully familiar idea that an infertile women, by apparently "failing" in one of her feminine duties - must go to pieces and remains willing immediate to strap her yoke back on, solely dreaming of rediscovering fulfilment in the greasy company of some penis-wielding git.

A curious sort of stereotype, I thought, for a female playwright rather uncomplicatedly to replicate.

Comments on View From The Stalls: "Fifteen Minutes" - February 2009

Thanks for your comment. You've clearly given the...

I'm always interested to read your analysis of the...