When reviewers call a work ‘important’ they mean ‘boring’ and ‘earnest’. And in those terms Shipwreck is one of the most ‘important’ shows I’ve ever seen. It’s not a play but a series of monologues and conversations spoken by a group of American liberals stuck overnight in a rural farmhouse.
Lloyd Evans
This will hurt
Plus: at the Almeida Theatre there's a show for sound technicians with a fondness for anti-Catholic 70s porn films
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