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Theatre

An inept dud penetrates the Park Theatre’s dross-filters - and I blame Beckett

Plus: TV beckons for the author of the Finborough's award-winning new play

8 November 2014

9:00 AM

8 November 2014

9:00 AM

Jonah and Otto

Park Theatre, until 23 November

Coolatully

Finborough Theatre, until 22 November

Jonah and Otto is a lost-soul melodrama that keeps its audience guessing. Where are we? The Channel coast somewhere. Indoors or out? Not sure. Near a church maybe? Violence barges in. Jonah, a mouthy scruff, shoves a knife in the face of Otto, a dignified old gent with Big Ears whiskers and a dark, elegant suit.

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