Oh Baby, I'm a Wild One
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Review Oh Baby, I'm a Wild One
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Amazing script, direction and acting!! Unfirtunately cant say the same about the Alexander Bar booking system - had priblems to pay on-line. More guests wanted to attend last night but the navigation system on your site made it so dufficult to booking that they decided not to come!! This is really not encouraging to draw audiences!!
I thought it was a good play. The actresses maintained the intensity through the show, but could have delivered the opening scenes more slowly with more playfulness, intrigue and subtleness. But it was about a serious subject, with sufficient cynicism and narcissism, as one slowly got into the alienated perspective of the narrative. This was a play that would have been further elevated with a questionsing as to morality, responsibility or guilt in the script. Without that it just seemed a little amoral, and it missed an opportunity to step up into another philosophic realm.
5 x superb !!! GREAT IN ALL
I had this nightmare; went to see a Louis Viljoen play and there was no profanity, no explicit sexual content, no complex structure, no dark depths, no addiction, no confrontation .....no intelligence. Luckily I woke up and went to see OH BABY, I'M A WILD ONE. I need not have worried. it's all there. What's different - well it's a one-person play (Emma Kotze does well and will improve, I think) and it has a filmic structure, zapping back n forth, from gauche groom to dead dog to marginal paedophilia and suicide. All in 45 minutes. Oh, Louis, you're a wild one!
I thought it was a good play. The actresses maintained the intensity through the show, but could have delivered the opening scenes more slowly with more playfulness, intrigue and subtleness. But it was about a serious subject, with sufficient cynicism and narcissism, as one slowly got into the alienated perspective of the narrative. This was a play that would have been further elevated with a questionsing as to morality, responsibility or guilt in the script. Without that it just seemed a little amoral, and it missed an opportunity to step up into another philosophic realm.
The script, rich in original thought, successfully portrays the dilemmas facing the character as a consequence to her encounters with the forbidden.
Bit of a high school production on all fronts. Unfortunate, as he's a good writer.
Incredible show! I love everything written by Louis Viljoen and I would appreciate seeing much more of his work (or re-runs of previous productions, like The Kingmakers).
Very well written and well acted. We greatly enjoyed this show and it is particularly suited for an intimate theater such as the Alexander.
Emma Kotze was brilliant! Riveting from start to finish. The food was very good, wonderful atmosphere.
We thought for a Saturday night it was sub-standard.
EK flips back and forth with unnerving ease between the many registers embedded in LV's dense gauze of a script with all its fearful symmetries. Survivors remain breathing. Uneasily.
Louis Viljoen is fast becoming my favourite writer/director. Emma Kotze's performance was magnetic. Really dark and really good. More of the same please.
Simply brilliant!
Riveting performance, incredible script.
5 x superb !!! GREAT IN ALL
quite dark, but loved it!
beautifully subtle nuanced performance for such hardcore subject matter .. congrats to Mr. Viljoen and Emma ..
belated feedback sorry, I wasn't sure whether to send less positive info this time: Emma performed well but Louis disappointed - I found the writing unvarying unsubtle one dimensional :(
Great script with a demanding and outstanding solo performance
I thought it was a good play. The actresses maintained the intensity through the show, but could have delivered the opening scenes more slowly with more playfulness, intrigue and subtleness. But it was about a serious subject, with sufficient cynicism and narcissism, as one slowly got into the alienated perspective of the narrative. This was a play that would have been further elevated with a questionsing as to morality, responsibility or guilt in the script. Without that it just seemed a little amoral, and it missed an opportunity to step up into another philosophic realm.
Brilliant
Amazing script and amazing performance. Great show!
Hi. Not a comment about the show, which was just as awesome the second time round, but about the florin programme. It suddenly occurred to me yesterday that it's been a while since I got florins, so I took a quick look at my own budgeting app, and I suspect that a small gremlin may have sneaked onto the website along with the shopping trolley, and that florins are now being awarded only for bar spend and not for shows. I could very well be wrong, but it might be worth checking out?
Very well written and well acted. We greatly enjoyed this show and it is particularly suited for an intimate theater such as the Alexander.
Nice venue for this type of production! Emma a great actor
5 Great show and intelligent script, as always, from Louis
Good enjoyable production, excellent diction, but speed of delivery too fast to take in all the nuances and fantastic descriptive monologue.
Emma was excellent! Such talent right there. The theatre was intimate and the perfect setting for such a show
The play: Incongruous title. Content was patchy and a sequence of emotional diatribes. Kotze displayed a limited repertoire of emotional dynamics. Her delivery was occasionally marred by memory lapses and imprecise diction. The production was somewhat simplistic, which undermined the performer's potential.
Incredible show! I love everything written by Louis Viljoen and I would appreciate seeing much more of his work (or re-runs of previous productions, like The Kingmakers).
Emma Kotze was brilliant! Riveting from start to finish. The food was very good, wonderful atmosphere.
Young dynamic actress, but the script sounded to me more like the soul of a man than a woman
a sad and dark story beautifully told. I don't like dark themes but could appreciate it.