Shallow Slumber by Chris Lee has been nominated for three Off West End Award and in my opinion, deservedly so. It has been nominated as Best New Play and for both its actors Amy Cudden and Alexandra Gilbreath. Aside from a few quibbles with the lighting this was a first rate production and yet for the second time this year, I have been to a play which I would be unlikely to recommend to anybody I know.
I hasten to add this has nothing to do with the quality of the piece, it is simply that it is immeasurably bleak, namely infanticide. The subject is honestly handled, truthfully told and well performed. The play was sold out for the rest of it's run but it certainly isn't anything I would cough up the price of a theatre ticket to see.
I suppose in real terms, we all ask different things from the theatre at different times in our lives. At the moment I crave comedy and there is very little new work, except perhaps black comedies out there. Hopefully Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper, creators of the wonderfully wicked adult pantomimes Above The Stag, will come up trumps with their new pay A Hard Rain, which receives a rehearsed reading on 27th February.
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