The ThreeWeeks review of Tom Clancy's The Event, which amusingly starts in almost exactly the same way as Lyn Gardner's review for The Guardian:
A man stands in a pool of light. He says some rehearsed words, and is - apparently - very candid about it all. The whole hour is meta-theatrical to the point of absurdity - but in a good way. The man - claiming to be Dave, but I'm not sure I believe him - gives a confident performance. He has an appreciative audience of theatre folk in the palm of his hand so it's a shame that the stuff about the state of society plods so much. When on theatre-related subjects - ie when talking about the show itself - he never says anything surprising or new. 'The Event' refers to itself all the time; it's very self-consciously an event about an event.
tw rating: 3/5
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