The Sunday Age, Melbourne 2004
Ideas Men
The Sunday Age, Melbourne
Reviewer Bill Perrett, 11 April 2004
If Samuel Beckett had access to psychadelic drugs, he might have written something very like Ideas Men. Performers David Woods and Jon Hough have devised a scintillating and delightful show that combines an almost totally empty situation with an absurdist approach. Two men, the Ideas men , sit at either end of a table . Their brief is to come up with some good ideas, something that is proving a struggle at the moment. Like Beckett characters they obsess about details – lunch, the availability of toilet paper. At regular intervals things take a turn for the weird. One character launches into an increasingly beserk tirade; the actors swap parts, genders, wear their clothes backwards, forget who they are. Brilliant and original comedy
Related pages:
.. Map Magazine, Brisbane 2004 (interview) .. The Herald Sun, Melbourne 2004