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Theatre: Review - Bubba and Luvvie at King's Head Theatre
Published: 15 July 2010
by SARRAOUNIA CHRISTIANSON
BUBBA and Luvvie is Angus Strachan’s heady two-handed depiction of the twisted secrets and sins of two wounded souls.
“The straight path from the heart to God via a little deception”: this is life according to Bubba, a police detective down on his luck. He stands precariously on the edge of a cliff contemplating life with Luvvie (Mia Soteriou), a high-class brothel madam. A life-changing trial is about to ensue in which both are implicated and must confront the dark past which haunts them.
This is a narrative of push and pull in which the bewigged peroxide Luvvie swings from a young girl in love to a mad woman possessed by age-old demons.
Bubba is equally unhinged, a man with nowhere to turn.
Strachan’s strikingly poetic language could easily have descended what is an affecting play into confusion, but was expertly wielded by Soteriou and McDermott.
An intricate portrait of two thoroughly modern characters who are literally and metaphorically on the edge. Sharply observed and amusingly played out, the production although ending a little abruptly, is an intensely intriguing etching of romance in the underbelly of society.
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Bubba & Luvvie - Thumbs Up!
Bubba & Luvvie by Angus Strachan is a play set around the midnight meeting of an aging madam and a drunken police officer at a cliff top. What seems like a chance meeting quickly turns into a series of stark coincidences as they discover that their stories are bound by certain shared events. The play explores the meaning of truth when felt wholeheartedly from two polarised points of view.
Continually playing with language – a quick moving colloquialised soliloquy – and emphasised by video projections, the two actors hold the atmosphere and tension throughout. Using prolonged mime and gesture to emphasise the importance of linguistic traps and verbal aggression, I was left in a rapid fire haze of what was real and what was imaginary to the characters. But then that’s the whole point: what is the murky truth to these two people and in a wider context, is it necessary to reconcile two viewpoints, so that others may understand? It seems truth is not made of stone. Under closer inspection it is closer to a fluid.
Bubba & Luvvie is thoroughly enjoyable theatre and a great example of how a space can be filled with the sheer presence and dominance of wordplay and its physicality. Thumbs up!
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Review - Bubba & Luvvie
OMG - rarely seen or heard such beautiful, raw, poetic, dramatic writing on the stage - as good if not better than Mc Donough, Pinter, Beckett - I'm not kidding, Bubba & Luvvie is a supurb, profound play - God only knows why it's not on at the West End.
Bubba and Luvvie
Delicious and fascinating - a must see !
Review - Bubba and Luvvie
Saw this last week and loved it! Excellent acting and scripting - a must see!
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