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A Broad Abroad

 
Natasha Long Review by Natasha Long 1 Published: 11 Aug 2008 Show Dates: 31 Dec 1969-31 Dec 1969

This one-woman show about travelling the world to find a moment of peace tries hard but suffers from too much content and too few moments of empathy.

Gaby Ford sounds like she’s had an interesting life: she moved from New York to Italy to teach dance, tried acting, became a voice-over performer for porn, then searched for her soul in India and now travels the world with the multi-lingual theatre company she founded. This is all fascinating stuff for a memoir, but trying to pack it into a one-hour show, aided only by a tub of “sound effect” munchies, is far too ambitious.

Directed by Dyanne White, ‘A Broad Abroad’ races through potentially funny scenes and as such fails to fully engage its audience. Without hearing her life story, one can tell that Ford is a natural performer, but her energy is not enough to carry this show through excruciating audience participation and self-indulgent digressions. Working too earnestly for both laughter and sympathy, this broad abroad ends up seeming a little pathetic.

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The Laughing Horse @ The Counting House. 31st July – 25th August. 14:25 (1h).