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(Sunday
is) The New Saturday Group: NUTS |
| Ravi Bali | |
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A new comedy set in the offices of the lifestyle supplement to a Sunday newspaper. A new enthusiastic young writer joins the staff of jaded hacks each with their own eccentricity. As she gets to know them, we see the ludicrously bad faith with which the hacks engage in their craft. The play satirises the banality, laziness and dishonesty that forms the content of this part of the media. This includes wanting to run a recipe from last year with the addition of pine nuts to make it seem fresh, accepting horoscopes sent in from some unknown source, making up a life to spice up a diary column and adding novelty by interviewing a dead man. It is well acted with a few very funny lines and the play has lots of potentially hilarious elements. It is however let down by the loose plotting and direction which means that the whole is far less satisfying than some of its parts. 2 August to 16
August.
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