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Theatre listings > A Little Laugh I lost Somewhere. - World Premiere. A Winner of 2005 The Arches Award for Stage Directors. Director, Designer and Writer - Skye Loneragan. Devisers - Hannah Buvik, Ally Lay, Alistair MaCrae and Eric Robertson. Lighting Design - Mark Ritchie & Skye Loneragan. Sound Design - Steven Moffat. Projection - Russell McEwan. Cast - here . Venue - Arches Theatre, Argylle St, Glasgow. Dates - 5 - 7 April at 7pm. Run Time - 1 hours 15 mins no Interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Comic charms not enough. Sometimes the reason for a devised piece and the sound desire to communicate it escapes a production. A Little Laugh I Lost Somewhere has some entertaining actors with some comic potential. But it nearly lost this reviewer who's pretty keen on physical theatre, in fact I nearly nodding off a couple of times. It's inspired by Antoine Saint-Exupery's The Story of the Little Prince who appears to many people in the course of his journey including an aviator in a dessert. Director Skye Lonergan with her devising crew starts the action in group for the not specifically dissatisfied where a succession of people wearing flying helmets confess their dissatisfaction including Roger who nearly has to leave on account that he's specifically dissatisfied that he isn't reacting to downers like his wife leaving. And so the show continues with physical clowning seemingly employed to no specific purpose, and hard to follow characters even if you were familiar with the book. It's important in theatre to take care of your audience and this production didn't enough. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you need a complete outside eye to look at a devised show before audiences do.. At times it is like watching a company of the seriously deranged who have been given a strong dose of a loving drug. Oh yes that gets through very strongly, and when they leave us with their final co-written chalked thought " The eyes are blind one must look with the heart" you could may be forgive them if you'd done the unusual and read the pre-show publicity and the programme. As it is the production runs the danger of losing the audience's attention before the point is revealed at the end. © Thelma Good 5 April 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast: Hannah Buvik, Ally Lay, Alistair MaCrae and Eric Robertson. Alistair MaCrae also played the live violin. The other winner of 2005 The Arches Award for Stage Directors is Davey Anderson whose production called Snuff, review, is also on at the Arches 2005 Theatre Festival. Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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