Arts venue, 88 London Road, formerly called Emporium is to close its doors at the end of the year. Just when director James Weisz thought he had secured the future of the theatre at 88 London Road, he says his world “has been turned upside down.”
Arts venue, 88 London Road, formerly called Emporium is to close its doors at the end of the year. Just when director James Weisz thought he had secured the future of the theatre at 88 London Road, he says his world “has been turned upside down.”
Patrick Marber’s play is a jaundiced look at masculinity and shows how men fail at being fathers, sons and friends. During one night of poker the game itself becomes a kind of weapon which the play’s characters use to goad, taunt and humiliate each other. But the portraits presented, though far from flattering, have a good deal of subtlety and depth: occasionally one of the six anti-heroes will wrong-foot the audience by some small display of sympathy or even kindness.
