swerytd
Thursday 12th March 2009 1:52pm [Edited]
Guildford
7,542 posts
Enjoyed last night's showing. Nice to finally meet Matt Stott, pretty boy Ricketts and Griff, however briefly!
First, I must apologise to Dave M, who I was subsequently informed that I sat next to for the whole performance without realising who he was! Sorry!
Before the results come out on here, I'll give my view. Out of the four, I must say I thought they were fairly evenly matched. By that I mean nothing stood out as head and shoulders above the others and nothing was completely appalling either.
Top Shelf (Dave M's, I'm led to believe) kind of finished very abruptedly but was interesting enough. Kept me laughing and had some good one-liners.
Three's A Crowd (Jane Perrin's) was very good, I thought. Probably just edged it in terms of the one I enjoyed most. The jokes were very funny and I like the set up. The ending set the scene *very* nicely for a series, which is probably why I thought it won out over the others.
19th Nervous Breakdown (by Griff) started slowly in terms of laughs, but wasn't uninteresting. It got much funnier and *very* dark the longer it went on. The shouty tramp guy, though he was excellent, scared the crap out of me. This one seemed to last a lot longer than the others, or was it just me. I felt it almost reaching Nighty Night levels of black comedy!
The Same Paige I found interesting in that it was essentially a one-act play. The rules say 'Don't write a one-act play!' (to be fair, they didn't before these entries) so don't really know what to believe now! That's not having a go at the piece, which was good and had its funny moments (though I didn't get a good look at the sculpture from the back row!)
It's interesting to see the setup and what you've got to work with. You can sort of see why your entries fail to get anywhere too!
All in all, had a good night and will probably go along again to one of the later stages, I think.
Dan