Be prepared, the caption warns, to laugh and cry, probably at the same time! This is unfairly self-deprecating; I felt both shows were well-performed, with considerable enthusiasm and skill. Though the cast admitted to feeling the performance had lost energy in recent weeks.
Their interpretation of 'Waiting for Godot' has the interesting twist of the character Lucky's being played by a wellington boot. I was unsure entirely what this was supposed to signify. Perhaps his tendency to be on the receiving end of kicks aimed by most of the other characters. Their decision to stage the show in a church could have been an interesting one - the lack of any distinct location to the play being one of its key features, dealing as it does with the difficulty and intense, mind-numbing boredom of passing time.
The performance of 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' was energetically performed. 'The Maniac,' the slippery character doing his best to evade institutionalisation in a mental home, even goes so far as to impersonate a High Court judge in his attempt to escape the clutches of what seems like a highly effective investigative team. Unfortunately, they are unable to outwit him and one of them ends up handcuffed to a table leg while a bomb goes off. It is a shame that the female journalist character never makes an appearance; it would have been interesting to see how they chose to present her. I feel it would not have been a patch on the Maniac, who stole the show in his red peacock's plumage.
