Theatre

Life—A One Woman Show

Alan Hindle | Saturday 13 August, 2011 16:22

A young woman, an aspiring actress, possibly the show’s writer and performer Amy De Bhrun herself, arrives in London from small town Ireland. She experiences all the usual vicissitudes of life in the heartless Big City. Dressed as though she has just escaped from an 80s music video, with a galaxy painted on her face, and moving like a marionette with her strings tied to the capricious fingers of the universe, De Bhrun tells half her story in simple prose and the other half in rhyming couplets. She makes several observations- nobody on the Tube smiles, it’s hard to be an actress- and jiggles and jumps about the stage. This, apparently, is part of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique trumpeted in the programme. The sad thing is that when she stands still and just delivers her story it’s quite sad and sweet. Watching her dreams drift away down the river of the day-to-day. This is spoiled somewhat by a perky message of ‘Everything Will Be All Right in the End’. A grade school level drama class production.

Camden Fringe Festival page

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