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British Theatre Guide, London 2003
Ideas Men
Ridiculusmus, Theatre Workshop
Fringe 2003 Reviews
David Woods & Jon Hough are at it again. They force us to look at ourselves in glaring neon with all our warts and ticks. And we love to hate it. Or hate to love it.
I am going out on a limb here as I think the Ridiculusmus is so stuffed with ideas that audiences could take something different away, not unlike Samuel Beckett. If fact, they quote Beckett as inspiration: “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.” And how!
In this freeze-dried, economy sized society we get a distilled glimpse of the manners of the socialized being in the office environments of the ‘ad world’. More than come up with an idea, they hit all the marks of the day to day office lunacy. For example, they have barely got to their desks, a treat to watch, before starting to talk about lunch and leaving early. The whole day is peopled with exchanges of our most ridiculous moments. I recognized far too many. It’s the Marx Brothers doing CNN editorialising.
And like Beckett, it’s not material for everyone. Riduculusmus must find that it is preaching to choir.
Catherine Lamm, British Theatre Guide (online)
Related pages:
.. The Independent, London 2003 .. ThreeWeeks Online, London 2003