Notoriously Yours
Five Point One Theatre Company (Australia)
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014
@ C South
Decent but not life-changing
Five Point One Theatre Company (Australia)
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014
@ C South
Decent but not life-changing
I’ve seen it number of times: a story technically well written, fine acting, precise direction, clear design choices. In one sentence: a decent production. But, so what?! The problem is that the story fails to engage me. I can’t relate to it. I couldn’t care less about the characters. So, really, it’s a waste of my time…What keeps me on edge in theatre is a story. A story with characters full of complexities made of flesh and blood, and ones I have feeling about. Unfortunately, the story written by Van Badham, and the characters in Notoriously Yours are non of that.
A man and a woman meet for sex via online dating site. He happens to be Snowden, and she is a thirty something, nymphomaniac daughter of former Balkan war criminal that found asylum in Australia, where the story takes place. After a night spent together Snowden disappears and she gets a visit from a secret police that blackmail her to travel to Singapore to act as a spy to get insight into another Balkan criminal from her past. Snowden is portrayed as a guy who sleeps with a different woman each night-there’s nothing more to him, really. The woman is rather silly, works in a store, doesn’t seem to bright, and doesn’t have great relationship with her father and yet he is the reason she agrees to cooperate with the police. None of these characters and their choices seem believable to me…I don’t relate to this story. It’s a shame, really, because, as mentioned earlier, all the elements of the production were very good. I would certainly like to see the work of this team on a more engaging and important story. They might then rock!
A man and a woman meet for sex via online dating site. He happens to be Snowden, and she is a thirty something, nymphomaniac daughter of former Balkan war criminal that found asylum in Australia, where the story takes place. After a night spent together Snowden disappears and she gets a visit from a secret police that blackmail her to travel to Singapore to act as a spy to get insight into another Balkan criminal from her past. Snowden is portrayed as a guy who sleeps with a different woman each night-there’s nothing more to him, really. The woman is rather silly, works in a store, doesn’t seem to bright, and doesn’t have great relationship with her father and yet he is the reason she agrees to cooperate with the police. None of these characters and their choices seem believable to me…I don’t relate to this story. It’s a shame, really, because, as mentioned earlier, all the elements of the production were very good. I would certainly like to see the work of this team on a more engaging and important story. They might then rock!
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