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Found in a charity shop and was curious about it :)
Tough to rate overall, because I thought Gasping was brilliant—corporate satire about privatising air, which is hideously prescient!
But his dialogue throughout...? Just find his style of comedy needlessly raunchy and not that funny? Like he deliberately goes on little riffs in order to add jokes in where the story would be more efficient without them, and I didn't enjoy any of them. It's like getting cornered by a weird uncle at a party who turns everything into a bad innuendo.
And I found the messages of the other two plays much thinner, which justified the bad jokes even less. Especially because there's such a nastiness to all the characters that I found it hard to care what happened to them—not even to see them get comeuppance.
I bet that if I was in a theatre watching these, and heard the delivery of the jokes, and was amongst a consistently laughing audience, it would take me like a week to figure out that I hadn't found it funny, haha! But it's like they say: a bad production of a good play? Sure. A good production of a bad play? Impossible.
Yeah, that's about it :)
Tough to rate overall, because I thought Gasping was brilliant—corporate satire about privatising air, which is hideously prescient!
But his dialogue throughout...? Just find his style of comedy needlessly raunchy and not that funny? Like he deliberately goes on little riffs in order to add jokes in where the story would be more efficient without them, and I didn't enjoy any of them. It's like getting cornered by a weird uncle at a party who turns everything into a bad innuendo.
And I found the messages of the other two plays much thinner, which justified the bad jokes even less. Especially because there's such a nastiness to all the characters that I found it hard to care what happened to them—not even to see them get comeuppance.
I bet that if I was in a theatre watching these, and heard the delivery of the jokes, and was amongst a consistently laughing audience, it would take me like a week to figure out that I hadn't found it funny, haha! But it's like they say: a bad production of a good play? Sure. A good production of a bad play? Impossible.
Yeah, that's about it :)
