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58 THE LIST FESTIVAL GUIDE
Gagarln Way 0”. Traverse Theatre. until Sun 26.41111. times vary. Someone once said of Lyndon Johnson that you could only dislike hitn while he was out of the room; once he was with you. you had to be channed. This is the LBJ of plays. There are moments where one character in particular is way too authorial as a voice. there are implausibilities where businessmen and working class folk have too much knowledge of such arcane areas as existentialism and turn of the century anarcho-syndicalism. But it's very. very funny when you‘re in the room with it.
John Tiffany‘s production of Gregory Burke‘s first ful|~length play uses the author‘s dialogic wit to good effect. In it. Eddie (Michael Nardone) a homespun philosopher. japester and violent psychopath discourses freely on such diverse subjects as Jean Genet. global warming and sexism, which he describes as ‘a cunt'. His listener is Tom (Michael Morelandi a security guardjust out of college. They‘re joined by Gary (Billy McElhaney). Eddie's mate. a rather two- dimensional sentimental lefty and Frank (Maurice Roevesi. a business consultant kidnapped and brought to the play"s breeze- block factory location as art act of misconstrued political terrorism. From here. it gets violent.
Politically. the play isn‘t sophisticated. finally seeming to suggest that we're all the same as Rupert Murdoch because we have to participate in his society. But if an individual can’t do everything. should we use this as an excUse to do nothing? For all that. Burke's nihilism comes with the charm 111 the script's gag-a-minute pace and combines with splendid performances (especially from Nardone) to seduce and frighten you into laughter. (Steve Cramer)
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