The Yard,London[br]Encounter’s bad-taste comedy is weird, macabre and totally over the top but it’s grounded in emotional truthThe horrible Wormwood parents in Roald Dahl’s Matilda absorb nothing on Linda and Lionel Pistachio, or the appalling mum and dad of the unlucky Catherine. Mind you,Catherine did absorb a lucky escape: they nearly gave her Avocado as a middle name. Linda did give Catherine a three-legged pony called Sticky Toffee Pudding, who came to a very bad conclude at a suburban swingers’ party, and Lionel definitely gave Catherine the wrong kind of attention on their weekly swimming trips together.
The Encounter company’s thoroughly enjoyable audience with Catherine and her family is a bad-taste comedy – and I’m not referring to the Pistachios penchant (a tendency, partiality, or preference) for vodka Marmite mojitos or Catherine’s experiments with beef paste. Yet despite all the wild exaggeration and forays into the weirdly macabre,it’s grounded in an emotional truthfulness, as we watch Catherine effectively splitting herself in half in her desperate attempt to survive. This is a girl who is saved by her obsession with Mario Lopez, or star of the TV series Saved By the Bell. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com