YOUR GUIDE TO EDINBURGH'S FESTIVALS
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
ED2011 2/5 Reviews ED2011 Theatre Reviews
Jawbone Of An Ass (Mortimer Olive Productions)
By Katie Chapman | Published on Sunday 21 August 2011
‘Jawbone of an Ass’ veers dangerously close to being God-awful. Designed to be an ironic exposition of the hypocrisy of Christian America, the play focuses on two women who, despite being preoccupied with Jesus and baking, are embroiled in a series of affairs and the mysterious disappearance of the protagonist’s husband. Although the introduction of a Christian psychologist adds another level to this comic exploration, the jokes are often banal and predictable or, in the case of subtler attempts at humour, repeated to excess. Revelatory scenes towards the play’s climax come close to redeeming it, and are reminiscent of those used to great effect at the end of farces, but once again, the writing and performances fall short.
Hill Street Theatre, 5 – 29 Aug (not 10, 17, 24), 8.00pm (9.10pm), £7.50 – £10.00, fpp274.
tw rating 2/5
[kc]
