Here are a few reviews of a show that I am IN :) I did not write these, but wanted to share (and advertise….of course!)
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Unfinished Business’ Table for Two
by Jen Beard
“Last Tuesday, I found myself going to recently refurbished nightclub Club Chemistry (formerly known as The Works) to see a play. Fortunately, that play was much anticipated Table For Two by up-and-coming Canterbury based production company Unfinished Business.
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Table For Two marks the third successful show for directors Alex Israel and Danny Pegg, with a sell-out first performance at the University of Kent’s Missing Link building at Darwin College. The show is running until Sunday 12th December, with tickets available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday performances.
Table For Two is a candid look at five unlikely couples sharing far too much over a three course meal. The audience experiences that impish delight of overhearing a private conversation held in public. The characters are engaging and six stories unfold in the same space, but neatly isolated by that imagined bell jar of privacy that seems to hover over the dinner table. This contains all the most satisfying elements of people watching: incredibly teasing snippets of conversation draw you towards the characters and who they could be. The overly chatty waiter, the drunken but oh-so-eloquent rich girl, the couple just beginning, the couple who are running out of steam: it’s a canny observation that the most intimate of conversations are carried out over dinner in a room full of strangers. The ingenious thing about Table For Two is that it allows the audience right in, not just with a twisted ear but a full-on, shameless stare.
Deliciously funny, wonderfully awkward, Table For Two is a fantastic play. With some brilliant lines from writer Danny Pegg, and a couple of unforeseen twits that take place between the acts, Table for Two captivates the imagination and the intrigue of the audience.”
as quoted from canterburypeople.co.uk, Dec 10, 2010
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Table for Two review by Alex Clifford
“Snooping; it’s every bit taboo, yet every bit more intriguing, and as humans we have a taste for it – to be curious of those surrounding us, to read between the lines and to hem their lives together. Would Come Dine With Me have been such a success without it’s wit and voyeurism? Would Big Brother have ever gained traction without that urge to observe others? Table for Two latches onto that seedling and plants it into a fully flourishing performance.
Five couples enter the restaurant, woven together by the theme of love. We see the last dregs of marriage played by Tom Tokely and Catherine Nicholson – their hostility played out through war metaphors where Tokely brilliantly plays his role with the raw essence of a history teacher. Seated at the bar an ever-so-elegant drunken young lady cavorts with… the older gentleman, their every line oozing with innuendo - Sophie Munson’s stumbles and slurs at the waiter are even better than the genuine thing. Besides them sits an embittered wife confronting her husband’s young gay lover, Ellie Herold is as frank and vengeful as her character suggests. On another table sit two guys who evidently love each other, but are hindered by the stigma of homosexuality. Next along sit an American writer with her gigolo engaging in a battle of wits, they hold a poker-face and try to suss out each other until they get it right.
The table waiting is done marvellously by Olivier Blanc, and perhaps the hardest role in the play was that of barmaid Lexi Saunders, whose acting said much more than her one line totality.
Brainchild of Danny Pegg, the skilfully crafted play leaves the audience to ponder on what could have been. His intelligent snippets and one line quips stitch together a fascinating patchwork of restaurant conversation, and thus Pegg gives us a superb avant-goût of these characters lives. In spite of the rather lugubrious ending we are left as an audience with a meaty appetite for more because the more we snoop, the more interested we become.
SATURDAY 11TH DECEMBER - St Mary’s Bredin Church Centre - 8:00PM
SUNDAY 12TH DECEMBER - The Missing Link (Darwin College) University of Kent - 8:00PM “
as quoted from canterburypeople.co.uk, Dec 11, 2010
hugging in Paris!….and in LA! 
my first venture out into the cold today!
