A psychopathic loot bag of laughs
Loot is an absolute hoot. Joe Orton's 1965 mad, dangerous farce is getting a very satisfying production from Jim Warren at Soulpepper.
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Warren warmed up the audience for this psychopathic comedy with a preshow mix of golden oldies from the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. (Orton was once hired to write a screenplay for the Fab Four; it was rejected.) But any fears of the production being mired in sixties nostalgia are quickly quashed: The play retains its edge and its anger,[url=http://www.article-web.co.uk/category/hermes-birkin-bag/]Hermes Birkin Bag[/url], even if a few of the jokes (mainly those around religion) don't work quite as well nowadays.
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Hanrahan's performance as Truscott is the frantic motor of the mayhem. He's adopted a middle distance stare that seems genuinely loopy, and rattles off his nonsense with true commitment. Hanrahan's only problem is that he isn't listening to the audience enough and leaving room for their laughter surely, a kink that will work itself out along the run.
Dennis's Mr. McLeavy may, however, be the most hilarious of this bunch. The Daily Mail reading voice of middle class propriety is the butt of the joke at the start, but soon becomes the audience's only anchor to reality. As he becomes unmoored, so do we.
Edison gives a gleefully off kilter performance as Hal, whose definitions of propriety are decidedly unorthodox. This sadist is quite content to dump his mother's body in a mine shaft, but won't strip her of her identifying clothes. "My own mum?" he says, appalled. "It's a Freudian nightmare." (That's a fair description of the play.)
These were my favourites, but the other two main cast members would be standouts in a weaker production. Watton's Dennis was perfectly understated, while Underhay has excellent delivery and has the best physical style, thrusting her tight skirted bottom in her co stars' faces.
"People are so unbalanced these days," Fay says, early in the play. "The man sitting next to you on the bus could be insane."
Orton's plays are unreal and theatrical. ("This had better go no further than these three walls," Truscott says at one point). But they feed on our real fears about the thin veneer of civil society. Knowing that Orton was bludgeoned to death by his lover a few short years later only makes the dark anarchism of his plays that much more chilling.

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