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Pistol packing Fresh state of the nation romp
copper Is our brutalised culture responsible for the recent spate of acts of terror? That‘s what playwright Henry Adam seems to be saying in this fresh-faced romp about a deadbeat twentysomething who‘s coerced by a dodgy policeman into infiltrating a potentially incendiary mosque. Expressed very crudely: an intolerant white society puts pressure on an otherwise tolerant Muslim society and the next thing you know you've got 9/11.
This is why the Scottish writer chooses to set his comedy in London, that most alienated of cities. On Miriam Buether’s concrete ghetto of a set, you can see how any sense of community could only ever develop despite itself. It’s also why Adam’s most vocal champion of neighbourliness is an ex-pat Scot. Mrs Mac is a broken connection to a lost time of social cohesion, a mother figure for a disenfranchised generation.
Not that there’s anything sentimental about Adam‘s vision. Played with splendid comic timing by Eileen McCallum, the old lady is a nippy old biddy with a course edge undermining her mince-and-tatties sweetness.
Despite the weighty topical theme, it's a funny play, although I can’t claim to have laughed as much as many in the audience. It strikes me as being too long winded to get the maximum yield either from Adam's gift for humour or from his narrative, which appears to meander even though it is actually well plotted.
instead, the greatest delight of Roxana Silbert's production is in the performances. All four actors are superb, but Fraser Ayres tops the lot playing the hapless hero, Nigel, with a sparrow-like vulnerability and a joyful feel for Adam's language. (Mark Fisher)
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