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Sinister therapy
This is a short, but powerful play. It has similarities to Ireland’s Ulster American, in that it opens with quick, cuttingly funny dialogue, that is both smart and thought provoking and then morphs into something more menacing. But unlike Ulster, the Fifth Step does not descend into a pointless farce and ends with something close…
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What a headache
Of the three plays in the trilogy, this one is by far the weakest; and on all counts actually: plot, staging and acting. There is good physicality to both actresses. Especially Carly does the dialogues with herself exceptionally well. The speed with which she talks, however, coupled with poor annunciations, meant that I struggled to…
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Is this how a grown-up behaves?
I preferred “Delroy” to “Michael” on pretty much all counts other than props – Michael had more props and they were a more pronounced aspect of the performance, which I enjoyed. In “Delroy”, the dialogues between characters enacted by the same person were less jarring, the acting more powerful, and the story maybe a bit…
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