Wednesday, January 20, 2021

CHOICES (Aurora Theatre)***

 

By Cal

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtEYPFAFU8k

Available until: Unknown

A young woman is in debt so she visits a debt counsellor for support. She’s handed a long document to read, but she’s confused.

It doesn’t make sense. There’s got to be a catch somewhere… hasn’t there?

James McLindon has written a very enjoyable play in which the Prospective Client tries to make sense of this apparent anomaly. Director Gaëlle Gognau judges the humour nicely – it’s a funny play, but it’s not consciously funny. Both characters take the situation very seriously. This means firstly that we care about the characters (one of them, anyway) and we’re actually maybe almost convinced…

Yuyu Kitamura is instantly engaging as the Prospective Client. She’s amusing, but she’s also likeable and convincing as a human being and we do want her to make the right decision… whatever that is. Kim Berrios Lin is great as the slightly wacky but very persuasive Debt Counsellor.

Isabella So has edited this together beautifully. I’ve just realised this play was almost certainly made on Zoom, but I wasn’t aware of it at all.

1 comment:

  1. Link is incorrect! Goes to different video.

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