By Cal
Link: https://www.whatacarveup.com
£12 or £16 with goody bag (programme plus a selection of recipes)
Available until: The performance you book becomes available
at 7.30pm on the day of the performance and can be accessed for 48 hours. The
final performance is on 29th November 2020.
Warning: 16+ - features strong language and graphic
descriptions of murder
What a Carve Up!
is based on a novel by Jonathan Coe from 1991, though Henry Filloux-Bennett’s
adaption includes scenes set in the present and addresses some of the issues
we’re facing now. I would say What a
Carve Up! is a film rather than a play as it is filmed on location - with
social-distancing, from what I remember (I was too focused on the story to take
note of this properly) though it seems very much a play about the distance
between people, whether that’s physical or emotional or a time distance or
separation due to death. The title might suggest a comedy and it has been
described as a satire, but it didn’t really seem that way to me – though
perhaps it might have done if I was old enough to remember Margaret Thatcher (I
don’t even really remember Tony Blair but I’ve been told that’s probably for
the best) or if I’d seen the comedy film from which the play takes his name.
The political situation of the present seems more a tragedy than anything else
and I can’t really imagine seeing the humour in it.
