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| CLOACA | CLOACA Closed December 2004
tickets from London Theatre Ticket Web |  | Play by Maria Goos. Directed by Kevin Spacey.
Trapped in a dreary civil-service job for the last twenty-two years, Pieter finds solace in his treasured collection of paintings. Then one night an unexpected phone call threatens him with its loss. As his world turns upside down, he pins his hopes on three lifelong friends to come to his help. There's Joep, the permanently ambitious politician, waiting for the call to ministerial office as his marriage goes into freefall. There's Tom, the one-time lawyer, his career damaged by a roller-coaster journey through drugs, self-harm and mental breakdown. And there's Maarten, an avant-garde theatre director whose plays don't have quite the same flavour as they used to in his youth. Four friends from their student days, reunited in middle age, their lives finely balanced between hope and disillusion.
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Old Vic Theatre
Waterloo Road, SE1 8NB.
Nearest Tube: Waterloo.
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From 16 September to 11 December 2004
Further details to be announced
Closed December 2004
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Performance length: to be announced
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| | What's New | Closed December 2004 Cast features Hugh Bonneville, Neil Pearson, Stephen Tompkinson and Ingeborga Dapkunaite.
Born in 1956, Maria Goos worked as a director after leaving theatre school in 1982, and also ran her own theatre company, De Kompaan, for four years. Graduating to writing, she achieved success in the 1990s with two award-winning television drama series: Dutch writer Maria Goos' acclaimed play Cloaca is a dark and powerful take on the joys and woes of male friendship. It is also a seriously funny piece of theatre, examining how men ruin their emotional lives in the constant quest for money, power and reputation. |
Theatre Review | Cloaca was written in 2002 for the theatre company Het Toneel Speelt, and made into a television film the following year. Both versions were directed by the writer's long-time collaborator, Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen.
There are some interesting twists as Goos's play reckons the cost of craving intimacy but being unprepared to pay the price, and there's a peppering of cautionary ironies... Spacey's production is punchily acted and nicely modulated as it moves into the darkness of the final scenes. But the central treachery that provokes the denouement can be seen coming a mile off. The Independent |
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