Review > Posthuman Satire Slash Romance
Chris Hannan’s Posthuman Satire Slash Romance is the most startling play of the six in The World is Too Much, and not an unqualified theatrical success.
Set at a showbiz party where three parasites – a drug-dealing couple and their sidekick – are trying to maintain their privileged access to a Britney-like shambles of a star, the play features a slightly mind-blowing mix of raunchy sexual action, scattered underwear and long-winded philosophical reflection that is not fully dramatised.
There’s a terrific intellectual and theatrical vitality here, though; and actors Keith Fleming, Molly Innes and Robin Laing bring such energy to the stage that they succeed in keeping this explosive show on track.
