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VenueProject Arts Centre
TownDublin
CountyIreland
From8th May 2006
To13th May 2006
When20:00. Sat Mat 15:00
Prices €15
Project Arts Centre (V0628423550)
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All Alone

Work:: All Alone (S1731666349)

A man uses the anonymity of internet chat rooms to feed his perversions and sexual inadequacies; exposing the inner workings of a debauched mind that sits within the deepest horror of consciousness. A character that is so depraved we could never imagine anything worse. It is only when we, the audience, think we have seen the very essence of evil, can we be moved to imagine that things could be worse. This production contains scenes of a sexual nature with strong language therefore NOT suitable for children.
Author Gene David Kirk

Production:: (T508799076)

Staged as part of the Third International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Website ALL ALONE at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2006 is supported by the British Council
Company Post Script Theatre
Director Jessica Beck
Lighting Phil Hewitt
Performer Andrew Barron
Performer Ben Carpenter
Performer Caite Ni'Ceileachair

Listing:: L489681615

Advance Booking: 003531 677 2255



Production details

Staged as part of the Third International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Website ALL ALONE at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2006 is supported by the British Council Advance Booking: 003531 677 2255

Reviews

Reviews


UK Theatre Web: 10May06: Star RatingStar RatingStar RatingStar Rating
CULTURE www.gcn.ie DENIS KEHOE GAY THEATRE FESTIVAL: ALL ALONE 10 May 2006 DENIS KEHOE Like Christine Jorgensen Reveals, All Alone was acclaimed at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. While the former is a hard act to follow, All Alone is an all-together different piece of work. Written by Gene David Kirk and presented by Post Script Theatre from London, the play is an examination of child sex abuse, both from the stance of victim and perpetrator. Man A and Man B are essentially the same man at different stages in his life; the boy abused by his father and the man using the internet to lure underage girls into his perverse world. To say that it is a disturbing and confrontational piece of theatre is to put it mildly, but All Alone uses its material in a challenging, interesting way. With the same man in different guises moving about the stage, revealing his most deplorable and damaged sides, the play is a powerful, unsettling piece. Both Andrew Barron and Ben Carpenter are excellent as the man and the boy, respectively capturing the abuser and the abused in equally effective ways. They are mentally, emotionally as well as physically stripped to the core, moving about a set that works well as a manifestation of the troubling subject matter. Graphic, violent and traumatic, All Alone is a play that isn't for those easily disturbed. But it is a quality production that bravely investigates an unsavoury but all too real topic in a skillful, powerful, sometimes abrasive way, always assured in its judgements of right and wrong.

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USER (10May06): CULTURE www.gcn.ie DENIS KEHOE GAY THEATRE FESTIVAL: ALL ALONE 10 May 2006 DENIS KEHOE Like Christine Jorgensen Reveals, All Alone was acclaimed at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. While the former is a hard act to follow, All Alone is an all-together different piece of work. Written by Gene David Kirk and presented by Post Script Theatre from London, the play is an examination of child sex abuse, both from the stance of victim and perpetrator. Man A and Man B are essentially the same man at different stages in his life; the boy abused by his father and the man using the internet to lure underage girls into his perverse world. To say that it is a disturbing and confrontational piece of theatre is to put it mildly, but All Alone uses its material in a challenging, interesting way. With the same man in different guises moving about the stage, revealing his most deplorable and damaged sides, the play is a powerful, unsettling piece. Both Andrew Barron and Ben Carpenter are excellent as the man and the boy, respectively capturing the abuser and the abused in equally effective ways. They are mentally, emotionally as well as physically stripped to the core, moving about a set that works well as a manifestation of the troubling subject matter. Graphic, violent and traumatic, All Alone is a play that isn't for those easily disturbed. But it is a quality production that bravely investigates an unsavoury but all too real topic in a skillful, powerful, sometimes abrasive way, always assured in its judgements of right and wrong.
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