Getting Away

Published Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 09:23 by Sally Stott

Following on from her debut play Getting Out, Sarah Henley once again proves that comedy revolving around the office didn’t begin and end with Ricky Gervais. This time the larger than life members of a company’s sales team are thrown together over the duration of a work-related spa weekend. The ensuing hilarity will be familiar to anyone who enjoys a good old Alan Ayckbourn farce.

GETTING AWAY

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12 May 2010
The Lion and Unicorn, Gaisford Street, NW1

BRINGING your other half to a work do can be a stressful affair for anyone. But when the do is actually a whole weekend away, it's always going to be disastrous.

Getting Away

By Sarah Henley
Giant Olive
Lion and Unicorn Theatre

Review by Howard Loxton (2010)

A graphic artist is asked to create a picture strip and this play presents the story as he devises it complete with inventing the characters and second thoughts about what happens. It goes at a cracking pace with actors each playing a couple of roles and plunging them straight into interaction without much opportunity to set up relationships and situations and that’s part of the fun – but it does make for confusion as to what is really going on and who they are.

 Review of Getting Away

"Fast, funny, creative cartoon caper."
by Janet Locke on 10/05/10

Who needs super-heroes? Well, we all do at the moment but none more so than an artist who has been commissioned to prepare a cartoon strip for a company who doesn't want his usual oeuvre of super heroes with super powers and wants the company name 'Haverstock Spa' to be worked into the script. The artist with his frenetic, creative energy is played with terrific verve by Benjamin Kissel.