ThreeWeeks Edinburgh » Sophie Gatacre http://www.threeweeks.co.uk The complete guide to the Edinburgh Festival Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:41:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ED2011 Theatre Review: Samantha’s Hotline (Sophie Gatacre) http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/article/ed2011-theatre-review-samanthas-hotline-sophie-gatacre/ http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/article/ed2011-theatre-review-samanthas-hotline-sophie-gatacre/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:50:22 +0000 ThreeWeeks Management http://www.threeweeks.co.uk/?p=5763 I spent the fifty minutes of this horrendous show trying to stop my face from morphing into an expression similar to that found in Munch’s ‘The Scream’. Sophie Gatacre plays Samantha, a former sloaney housewife who sets up a sex line after her husband leaves her for his secretary. In reality, it’s an hour spent watching an increasingly desperate woman simulate sex, to a horrified and bewildered audience. Gatacre seemed completely out of control, mumbling to herself between lines and staring hungrily out at the audience through smudgy eyes – I’m not sure if this was all an act. It was horrible; I wanted to cry. Ignore the tw ratings explanation: here, one star isn’t bad, it’s really fucking awful.

theSpace at Jury’s Inn, 5 – 27 Aug (not 7, 14, 21), 8.05pm (8.55pm), £5.00 – £7.00, fpp295.
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