Red Light Winter - review

Ustinov Studio, Bath

Awarded

Adam Rapp in 2005 the game on a love triangle of unrequited love in two starts and ends with an act of desperation. In the first playwright Matt in Amsterdam with his old college buddy Davis tries to hang himself with a belt attached to a coat rack in their dingy digs. The hook falling off the wall, as Davis comes home with Christina, a prostitute who has hired Matt. In addition to be around two men, Davis slept with Christina first.

What follows is a strong, intense and often hilarious look sadly on the dynamics of an old friendship and almost defeated, but also taking strain of loneliness and obsession. Rapp writing is fierce and well observed in jokes competition between two friends Matt (Ilan Goodman), the intuitive, nerdy, needy, poor writer, whose career is going nowhere, and Davis (Keir Charles), the drugged editor toxic alpha male until he ran into a bestseller in the slush pile.

first, Christina (Sally Tatum) meets all the clichés - French, sexy and uninhibited, and tart with a heart - but escapes its façade, not once but several times, that match for Matt. needy, the poor and going nowhere when the game moves to New York in the second act he loves you, and you can not forget their only night together, she likes Davis, but he can not remember anything. "Oh, you're a bitch?" He said incredulously, having mistaken another woman who has slept with in Amsterdam.

Rapp wrote fiercely strong corresponds to the production of three performances by Richard Beecham magnetic drain parts of dark cruelty, tenderness and romance, doomed. This is not an easy watch, but it is a dark beauty.

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