How To Lose Friends And Irritate People

Note: This review is from 2001

Review by Steve Bennett

This pleasant enough show told of a journey, albeit a short one, of two playwrights and the struggles and frustrations of well, writing a play.

It flowed along nicely enough, with the characters in the writers' imagination coming to life, and there was some good dialogue and puppetry of words.

But it all seemed very familiar: just an unimaginative reworking of Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall's Bottom, with its two weird flatmates - whimsical and dreamy, odious and sex-driven and prone to the obligatory gratuitous violence, resulting in a frying-pan-across-the-head bust-up.

The two were even visually similar to the Bottom duo, even down to the mannerisms. Intended? Who knows?

Otherwise, the cast seemed to gel, it was well acted and had some smile-inducing moments.

But, frankly, the title did it for me.

Review date: 1 Jan 2001
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett

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