11 April 2008
5:01 PM
The PILLOWMAN
I don't believe comedies come any blacker than this play. I spent almost 3 hrs with dialogue so uncompromisingly dark I wondered why I put myself through that.
Undoubtedly, the most impressive bit was the one with the prog's mentally defective brother Michal. The acting was incredible, there was such innocence and such ugliness in him.
I don't think I have seen the like.
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Also, you know something is really wrong when you find Tyrrells gourmet potato chips going for 7bucks on the second shelf in Cold Storage. Especially after knowing that Tyrrells founder had explicitly expressed a justified loathing of the Tesco-fication of his haute chips.
It used to only be available in UK's Waitrose.
Globalisation then.
