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.
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.
The writing, along with the talents of the two performers, make it an engaging and unpredictable theatre piece.
Like a Jackson Pollock painting, it is random and messy yet over all works compellingly well.
David Leddy on new show Long Live the Little Knife
Forging ahead: David Leddy's on new show Long Live the Little Knife
On Tour, from Tuesday February 24, 2015, until Saturday March 28, 2015.
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