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Showing posts with label Jason Denvir. Show all posts

Monday, 26 November 2018

A Guide for the Homesick

by Ken Urban

seen at Trafalgar Studios Two on 22 November 2018

Jonathan O'Boyle directs Douglas Booth as Jeremy and Clifford Samuel as Teddy in this intense play about the encounter between two young men in a bland Amsterdam hotel room (or more likely, a hotel near Schiphol Airport, as there is often the sound of planes outside; set design by Jason Denvir).

Jeremy is returning to the US after a stint with Médecins sans Frontières in Uganda; as Teddy brings him to his hotel room he claims to have missed his connecting flight and to have no room booked for himself. Teddy has evidently has the room for a few days, and has been sharing it with a now vanished friend on a sort of private stag trip before the friend's wedding.