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Play: No Ordinary Nut
Reviewer: Madeleine Allen
To call this a play is an insult to the audience. Not only is it pointless, it's boring. It is nothing but ramblings on stage and repetition - that is NOT the theatre of cruelty as the ad touts. Furthermore, two of the actors didn't know their lines and were prompted. When this prompting happened, the other actors noticed it and dropped character immediately. I hope none of these actors think they are professionals - they are not. The one good thing about this play was the eldest actor. With some real direction he may have been good, at least he committed to his role.
Play: No Ordinary Nut
Reviewer: Todd Pickering
2 Stars
Save for Kevin Copps performance as Zorped the self-abuser(I think I have
that right...the one who COLORS....) no one seems to know what they are
doing in this play about "Man's inhumanity to Man". The script
is extremely disjointed and absurd (as I believe it is meant to be) therefore
providing a most difficult acting challenge. There were lines being fed
to the actors off stage. I would trust that by the next performance the
actors will have learned their lines but the pace of such a show needs to
be doubled to bring this piece to speed...
Play: No Ordinary Nut
Reviewer: Hal Smythe
4 Stars
Fringe Festival veteran Jamie Daniel’s No Ordinary Nut is a fugue of
fascinating contradictions: tender and brutal; crude and poetic; innocent
and pornographic; vividly realistic and strikingly dadaesque. The play is
set in an unnamed insane asylum. However, this is no ordinary social
commentary. Just watching No Ordinary Nut is a lesson in how we have become
desensitized to the madness around us. The ensemble cast reaches for new
levels of absurdism. Watching them you feel as if you're trapped on a rollercoaster
at a nightmare theme park. You won't want to run into any of these people
again but you must see them once. Daniel’s last Fringe offering, Waiting
For Bordeaux, was a touching, realistic three-way romance, with fascinating
psychological undertones. While No Ordinary Nut is a radical departure from
all things realistic, Daniel’s gift of a short wry phrase is still
very much in evidence. The action is non-stop; the mood is simultaneously
shocking and hilarious.
- Hal Smythe
Play: No Ordinary Nut
Reviewer: monkeyMary
That's it?!? (I CAN give a ZERO rating, right?) I was waiting for the story to go somewhere. There was potential. Further disappointment came from the very weak performance of the 'caretaker', who had lines fed to him throughout the 35 minute performance. Do I have to be 'no ordinary nut' myself? or perhaps if I were familiar with Antonin Artaud and his 'Theatre of Cruelty' I would have understood this screaming display of 'cuckoo' archetypes?