P HOGAN COYLE   

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Plays by P Hogan Coyle

P HOGAN COYLE

Children's Act

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1st Published:

New Theatre Publications,

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doollee no

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Genre:

Comedy One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

3

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Synopsis:

You enter the Theatre Upstairs through a decaying passageway, pass a bedbound elder and are confronted by a sleazy apartment surrounded by mountainous debris. The flat's chief occupant is the 19-year-old Dima who makes a living flogging grave-markers from the adjacent cemetery. On the eve of joining the Chechnya-bound army, Dima throws an impromptu party for his Mafia contact, a pair of female cousins and a downstairs druggie that reveals the depths of their youthful desperation. We're the living dead," says Dima, looking out over the looted cemetery. Of the party guests, the 20-year-old Lera has drifted into prostitution, while her college-educated cousin, Yulka, is a taciturn siren with a sadistic appetite for destruction. As a portrait of youthful desolation, Sigarev's 90-minute play is grippingly persuasive: my only regret is that he injects a note of fake lyricism symbolised by the discovery of the ladybird. No one could deny these characters their right to escapist fantasy; but the vaporous nature of

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