Pinter’s Victoria Station & Family Voices

This rare outing for these two 80’s vignettes saw an increasingly frustrated taxi controller trying to direct a recalcitrant cabbie, played mischievously in a wheelchair by Jonathan Rice, to a pick up at the landmark he had no comprehension of. The lack of props lent itself to the freeform structure with #274 interjecting to cause further agitation. The second piece; a correspondence between mother and son, presented in well-executed monologues, contained farce, sexual predation and confusing asides that the performers delivered with great conviction. The company confidently captured the Pinteresque nuances making this an enjoyable short and bittersweet piece of theatre.

The Warren, 12 May 2012
Rating:
Steve Clements