In heaven a thief steals the gods' divinity, whilst here on earth, some fetish items have been stolen from a reality television star. Set in Essex, Chris Hannan's comedy-drama is laden with both filthy language and dirty content.
Reviews
Time Out
Nina Caplan
“The casting is superb... and it's clear that director Raz Shaw, an ex-gambling addict, knows a thing or two about toxic patterns of behaviour. Best of all, though, is Hannan's writing, which is dense, beautiful and shit-spattered - rather like Soho.”
04/09/2007
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The Guardian
Maddy Costa
“At heart, this is a soppy play, a plea for more romance, more gentleness, more humanity in our dealings with each other. But Hannan conceals that soppiness beneath a clipped, aggressive, scatological language that invites winningly vivacious performances”
01/09/2007
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The Independent
Paul Taylor
“Chris Hannan has revealed that, when Dominic Dromgoole invited him to write a play for Shakespeare's Globe, he spent a couple of years resisting. Having seen The God of Soho, I fear it might have been wiser for him to go on holding out.”
04/09/2007
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The Independent on Sunday
Kate Bassett
“Hannan manifests some freewheeling boldness, but most of his script is bemusingly garbled. Director Raz Shaw resorts to kitsch spectacular parades”
03/09/2007
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The Evening Standard
Henry Hitchings
“The God of Soho doesn't fit this space... it presents a succession of half-developed ideas and asks a huge amount of the committed cast.”
01/09/2007
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The Financial Times
Alex Newman
“A hectic, occasionally funny and at times self-defeating affair”
05/09/2007
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The Daily Telegraph
Charles Spencer
“The sprawling chaos of both play and production is a shame, because the issues are timely and some of the performances excellent”
04/09/2007
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The Stage
Ben Dowell
“There is rarely a moment where Hannan does not want to deck his stage in women in lingerie, bondage gear or men dancing in hotpants. My guess is for want of ideas.”
01/09/2007
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The Daily Mail
Quentin Letts
“I have never seen the Globe so empty - particularly after the interval”
31/08/2007
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The Observer
Rachel Cooke
“ITV3 as styled by an ex-drama student who once, long ago, hurriedly read Euripides.”
03/09/2007
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The Times
Libby Purves
“It never flowers. There was some laughing, a faint groundling cheer after a prolonged bad-sex scene. The Globe audience is patient and loyal. But the response was muted, even in the age group who laugh at anything.”
04/09/2007
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