Waiting for Bordeaux
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Waiting for Bordeaux
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Play: Waiting For Bordeaux
Reviewer: Michael Kael
4 Stars
Acting and presentation 3, Script 5 so I'll give it a 4....I liked the idea of it, the cleverness of it from the title on down and some of the dialogue was really first rate....i'm tempted to see it again and would highly recommend attending a performance


Play: Waiting for Bourdeaux
Reviewer: Franz Sarte
5 Stars
My insatiable thirst for some decent existential entertainment was thoroughly quenched! In some way, aren't we all just waiting around at the table, befuddled by the clueless waiter?


Play: Waiting For Bordeaux
Reviewer: Emlyn
3 Stars
Might have given 4 stars, if the PLAY-ing had done justice to the play. There seemed to be more pauses than lines. I wonder how it would have been if approached a-la-Altman... a conversation should flow without any apparent thought process. So fire off those lines one after another, folks, and cut the running time in half! You can do it!


Play: Waiting for Bordeaux
Reviewer: Ella Driscoll
4 Stars
I thoroughly enjoyed this play. the dialogue is sharp, there is a tension created by the "waiting" and, thus holds your interest throughout. The one weakness was in Gordon's character. He wasn't as convincing as the others in the cast.

Linda was excellent as Hannah and was totally cool in her part.


Play: Waiting for Bordeaux
Reviewer: Peter
4 Stars
Two actors silently seat themselves at the onstage dinner table and begin a mime-chatter that meshes with the "before the play" chatter of the audience. In this way the play beguiles the audience with a seamless introduction.

This is an effective opening to a very good one-act play that this reviewer and his friends enjoyed from beginning to end.

Recommend.


Play: Waiting For Bordeaux
Reviewer: John Rackham
2 Stars
Waiting For Bordeaux claims to satirise pretentious artists while being full of pretension itself, with its grafted on references to Waiting For Godot. It made me sad to see the actors struggling with the script and a very clear absence of direction. I wasn't planning to review this, as I don't like to give negative reviews but after the first reviewer, (clearly a close friend of the writer), tried to unfairly blame the actors I felt I had to redress the balance. Well done to the lead actor and actress for fully committing themeselves to their roles and making the best of the flawed material and absent direction.


Play: Waiting for Bordeaux
Reviewer: puck
5 Stars
Even though on opening night some of the actors forgot , or nearly forgot their lines; I enjoyed this absolutely absurdist view of self-important artists, their hangers on and enablers.

I only hope that in future perfomances the actor's see fit to spew the author's lines with the true vitriol with which they were brewed.

Bravo James !