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One
Man Rant Group: Perhilion Theatre Company |
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James Panton | |
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One Man Rant is an entertaining romp through a day in the life of a late-twentysomething who works in an dead-end job. The performance touches on some interesting questions about the tedium of a contemporary world that invites us to seek solace in fantasy, from internet porn to invisible friends; and questions about the nature of contemporary individuation. But the play doesn't ask big questions, so much as to absorb us and entertain us. The solo performance by Alisdair Satchel, who also wrote and directed the piece, moves with admirable versatility from monologue to mime, from puppetry to physical theatre. It takes us on a number of leaps of the imagination - from the imagined reality of our work colleagues to, I have to say, a very moving relationship between a man and his jobby. The moral message is none-too-subtle: there is something rather sad and pathetic in retreating from a reality we dislike rather than engaging and acting upon it. But subtlety is not the intention here: this is an absorbing and innovative one-man performance. 30
July to 24 August.
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