Went to a rehearsed reading of the above play by American playwright Julia Jordan last night. It was part of a week of rehearsed readings by the Operating Theatre Company, a group who specialise in staging new plays and working with new writers and it was pretty decent fayre.
It told the tale of a man and a woman who hooked up after meeting in a bar. But the man was a robber who was seeking absolution for shooting the woman’s kid – or so he thought until the final reveal showed he’d got the wrong woman.
The play was just over an hour long and by twists and turns the twosome gradually revealed more about themselves until the woman finally learnt the man’s real agenda and faced a choice of whether or not to kill him.
Some of the dialogue was pretty sharp and funny and some of it was quite tender and poetic but for me the play didn’t hang together enough.
Having said that, though, it was only a rehearsed reading and I suspect it’s a far-from-finished piece and there was certainly enough potential for it to be something much stronger and much more intriguing.
And the entrance price of £2 made it the cheapest night I’d had out in the West End for quite some time.
Anyway, you can find more information about the company and their work on: www.operating-theatre.co.uk
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