by THEATREclub
17-28 Jan, 2012 | Project Arts Centre
Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 20 January
How do you solve a problem like The Family? Make a cup of tea, of course. But there comes a time when even that – our nation’s reflex action to anything remotely real – becomes an impossible task. Behind the whiter-than-white picket fence perfection cracks appear, holes show, the plywood walls tremble and things begin to crumble. Thankfully, it’s a much more enjoyable experience watching it happen to someone else’s family. In fact, we are drawn to it, addicted to it, in the daily doses of Soaps and reality TV we consume in terrifyingly desensitized states of semi-consciousness. But this family is different, because, as we are warned in the show’s programme, when it ends it feels much too like our own... read complete review