★★★★☆ Taken at face value, it’s hard to imagine that a play about three middle-aged men arguing over a very expensive painting could have universal appeal. However, ART manages to take what sounds like an elitist premise, and turn it into a warm and funny piece of theatre which looks at the nature and power dynamics of male friendship.
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We have been trying to review/interview Tape Face in the UK for the past four or five years but I only managed to catch up with him on his recent tour of Holland and Belgium . . . The guy comes on wearing an ordinary jacket, jeans and striped t-shirt. Slung around his neck is a leather shoulder bag. But what makes you remember, what makes him stand out is that he has greased spikey hair, a lot of heavy black eye make-up and, rather conspicuously, a strip of black gaffer tape across his mouth. Hence the name – Tape Face.
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★★★★★ After welcoming the audience personally at the door and offering everyone a cup of tea and a hobnob biscuit, Lockyer begins his story. He was a successful actor for the RSC, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet at Stratford. He had some hours to kill before a performance.
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★★★☆☆ The nature of the piece makes it difficult to generate any real tension, but the cast make up for it with some witty cameos. It’s an example of a genre that sets out to do nothing but entertain and that it does with some style.
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★★☆☆☆ On paper the subject of this play has all the makings of a tense and moving historical / biographical play examining the Austria of the 1930s immediately post Anschluss. Matthias Sindelar, a paper light man, was the leading goal scorer of the Austrian football team known as the Wunderteam.
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★★★☆☆ It started as a film, before becoming a TV series that itself had a spin-off, a stage musical, and rounded out by a cinematic remake. Selladoor Productions brings the stage version back to the UK with all the leg-warmers and poppy 80s vitality you would expect from the fictionalised attendees of the High School of the Performing Arts.
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