Saturday 7 May 1994

Tanya and Kit by Harry Cripps, La Mama, REVIEW, 7 May 1994

THEATRE

At La Mama, until June 1994

Reviewer: Kate Herbert around 7 May 1994

This review was published in The Melbourne Times after 7 May 1994

 

Two women meet in an apartment and both believe they live there. They become intimates, familiars, inseparable. Harry Cripps' Pintersque script is interesting, involving and funny. It comes to life with the two actors, Sarah Chadwick and Sophie Lee who have a great rapport on stage.

 

Chadwick plays Tanya, a "sleek and dangerous" woman with an unspecified executive position.  Her performance is masterly, her presence magnetic, her timing and delivery impeccable. Lee has a charming ingenuousness as Kit.

 

This is a quirky play which works on many levels although it incorporates some improbable left-field plot elements. Really worth a late-night look.

 

Kate Herbert

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