tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481691725314537521.post4744302328372490968..comments2023-09-20T14:34:21.102+02:00Comments on Postcards from the Gods: The One – Soho TheatreAndrew Haydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05568061302451610140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481691725314537521.post-23251355894015159292014-03-04T21:50:29.517+01:002014-03-04T21:50:29.517+01:00I had a very similar reaction re the gender of the...I had a very similar reaction re the gender of the author (and the character). I couldn’t help thinking that if a man had written the line ‘you should take a dodgy one (taxi); get yourself proper raped’ he’d have been called all the misogynists under the sun. I still liked the play, though. To be honest I don’t get to a lot of fringe stuff and only went to this because its Sunday evening slot made more appeal than joining my friends in the pub to wait for the 2121 from Euston. I had seen Phoebe Waller Bridge before (as Sorel in Hay Fever) and thought she was a bit ott but still had something about her. The part of Jo could have been written for her – oh, wait a minute, it was. Despite its sometimes distasteful features the writing was pacy and often quite funny. I think the length was about right – much longer and it would have been less pacy and they’d have run out of jokes, I felt. The nonsense with the clock didn’t appeal to me – apart from anything else it was quite difficult even from the third row to read the clock face – but the set was otherwise functional and unobtrusive. I’d go to another Vicky Jones play on the strength of this.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645633692754812326noreply@blogger.com