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You may recall this time last year Crooked House staged the Irish premiere of Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade. This year we stage another acerbic and dark comedy, Mouth to Mouth by multi-award winning British playwright Kevin Elyot (author of My Night With Reg, The Day I Stood Still and Forty Winks, all for the Royal Court. Crooked House tends to make work from terse, comic texts with strong narratives and richly drawn characters. Mouth to Mouth is a modern ghost story, set among the middle class literati of London, and seen from the point-of-view of Frank, a gay playwright who wonders if he can write about the tragic events in his friends' lives to revive his flagging career in the theatre. One of his friends is is obsessively doting mother, Laura, whose son Philip Frank has saved from drowning. The story revolves around a horrific event that occurs at the homecoming party for young Philip, one year ago, and from which none of the characters have been able to recover. It is...

POSTED BY Peter 31 Jul 2010