Death of an Anarchist

For me this is a very difficult play to review. It is billed as a comedy but my seeing this play for the very first time; I didn’t find it particularly comical. I can imagine it is the type of comedy that grows on you the more you see it, as was suggested in the director’s notes.

Just because the play didn’t appeal to my sense of humour doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it, because I did. I thought all the individual performances were quite superb.

Andy Keogh, making his debut with the company, was excellent, playing the Maniac. He created a number of manic characters, during the performance, each one, becoming crazier by the minute. Seb Combe was a superb cynical policeman. Other police roles were very played by Jason Munn and Nigel Banks and Paul Hayton was a hard-working, very badly done to, Constable. The only female part was played by Lisa Moffatt, it must have been very difficult for her amongst all those  fellas, but she coped extremely well.

There were a number of international incidents, as well current scandals mentioned in the script, which added to the humour and the director had obviously worked the company very hard to get them to the performance level achieved.

The set was very clever and worked very well and the lighting and costumes were all first class.

Well done to the club for taking on this kind of dark comedy.

Sadly on this occasion, it wasn’t one of my favourites

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