Lament [review by Thelma Good]

Thelma Good's review of this show seemed really negative but highlighted some ideas of the suspect culture project. She stated how the company merely showed the audience the stories and ideas of the play instead of rightly communicating them: "Its close to anti-theatre". Lament managed to take the audience to different lands and cultures but only with the use of confusing dialogue. Thelma believed that when intense feelings did occur (which was apparently very rare) the other characters seemed to ignore them. The whole of this review can be found at Edinburgh Guide.

Some ideas we could use for our performance, which she stated in the Casanova review, are the use of a character performing a rhyming monologue as an opening to the piece and doubling up scenery and props, e.g. in Casanova they used cabinets as a bar and airport seats.

Kelly Barton