TWO LOST SOULS ON A DIRTY NIGHT
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“… One of the great things about this play is the way it shows that suffering doesn’t make you a nicer person and that there is no solidarity for those at the bottom of the heap. Marc Elliot as the wheedling, goading Paco and Edward Cosgrove as Tonho, a confused young man at war with his animal instinct to survive and his better, gentler nature, are good enough to give the evening credibility.”
Lyn Gardner – The Guardian
“… Marc Elliott plays Paco so convincingly that the desire to get up and thump him when he starts his jibes is almost overwhelming. He throws himself exuberantly around the well-designed set, hardly keeping still for a moment. Edword Cosgrove takes on the more contemplative role of Tonho well. The terrifying force of the play, and its universal relevance, is conveyed brilliantly in this translation by Henrik Carbonnier, who hasn’t balked at keeping the language colourful.”
Siobhan Murphy – The Metro (Critic’s Choice)
“… No gently pleasurable theatre evening here. This play by the Brazilian Plínio Marcos, who died last year will keep you on the edge of your seats. Marina Mindlin’s stage design is an apt cocoon to hatch darkness, and it will hold your straining eyes captive to every meaningless prop. The dialogue you could live without will keep your ears pinned to every uncouth syllable mispronounced by these utterly convincing actors in their journey through the bowels of life and language… A question which disturbed me as I left was how can a play about the slums of Brazil transfer over so well to what we believe to be the advance society we live in.”
Ian Fenton – Doyoo.com
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