Long Live the Little Knife

A dynamic, absurd and uplifting theatre piece about forgery, castration and blind drunkenness. Read more …

Liz and Jim are a husband and wife team of forgers who have risen to great heights and fallen to great depths in their careers as con artists and counterfeiters. They are caught in a turf war over fake vintage handbags. They need to find £250 grand in protection money. Their Big Boss, The Wee Man, convinces them to undertake a harebrained mission to up their game and become the world’s greatest art forgers. There’s only one problem. They can’t paint.

In this fast-paced, provocative and boisterous caper Leddy finds the incongruous connections between verbatim theatre, free-market economics, the psychology of ‘truth’ and a castrated labradoodle in a classic Chanel clutch bag.

More information on this production is available at www.davidleddy.com.

The critical consensus

Thanks to the sheer force of the acting--and a brilliant closing coup de theatre--Leddy...makes this often unwieldy show work; makes us think about the final blood-price of a world where nothing is real but cash, and where people are successful deal-makers, or they are nothing.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 09/02/2013