Fear
Dominic Savage
Fear
When a late-night robbery goes wrong, a young banker's life ends and his attacker's takes a dramatic turn. A tale of difference and greed in contemporary London, Dominic Savage's debut play takes a deeper look at what we value, and what we fear.
2.3 out of 5 based on 7 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Location |
London |
| Venue |
Bush Theatre |
| Director |
Dominic Savage |
| Cast |
Louise Delamere, Rupert Evans, Aymen Hamdouchi, Jason Maza, Lorna Brown |
| From |
June 2012 |
| Until |
July 2012 |
| Box Office |
020 8743 5050 |
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When a late-night robbery goes wrong, a young banker's life ends and his attacker's takes a dramatic turn. A tale of difference and greed in contemporary London, Dominic Savage's debut play takes a deeper look at what we value, and what we fear.
Reviews
The Evening Standard
Fiona Mountford
“Savage the director could usefully have demanded that Savage the writer explore some of the promising plot paths that finish peremptorily in frustrating dead ends, not least the disjunction between ‘public’ reputation and private truth. We also don’t need Savage to spell out that Gerald and Kieran are driven by the same lust for money; it’s a point that works far better organically.”
26/06/2012
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The Stage
Ben Dowell
“Savage sometimes overdoes the soci-political sauce and it is sometimes hard to believe that real robbers are motivated simply by as much anger and class warfare as Kieran is, with Kieran adding in a little Freudian anxieties about whether his mum actually loves him. But when Savage takes his duo from their self-conscious reflections and focuses on the sexual aggression as well as the nihilism which drives these two out into the night, it seems a far more plausible portrait of modern urban life.”
26/06/2012
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The Guardian
Michael Billington
“When not pummelling us with obvious points, Savage's play becomes more interesting. There is some subtlety in the idea that the raging, life-hating Kieran lives in secret terror of his mum, and that Gerald's partner is troubled by the amounts of money her husband is making. Thanks largely to a low, insistent tremolo created by sound designer Ed Clarke, the production also sustains a mood of fear for 80 minutes.
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23/06/2012
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The Independent
Paul Taylor
“A powerful production, but a feeble play.”
27/06/2012
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The Sunday Times
Maxie Szakwinska
“Lives up to its title in one respect: it’s almost frighteningly thin.
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01/07/2012
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The Financial Times
Sarah Hemming
“The problem with the play, [though,] is that rather than open up a subtle investigation of contemporary priorities and values and their impact on a deeply divided society, it stops at this rather basic level. And while it is driven by urgency – and a tremendous performance from Aymen Hamdouchi as the alienated young robber – it is too skimpily characterised to hit home.”
27/06/2012
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The Daily Mail
Quentin Letts
“The plot is as predictable as the tides. The play’s strongest moments come when nasty Kieran addresses his class-war bile directly at the Bush’s middle-class audience. If you are into self-loathing, you might enjoy it.”
26/06/2012
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