JUMPY: Laughing hard as hard questions are asked
Reviewed by Terry MacTavish-Theatreview
I may not be a parent but I work with adolescents and I know all too well that hideous moment when the child who has trusted and respected you suddenly looks at you with the cold, hard eyes of a contemptuous stranger. In Jumpy, April De Angelis confronts this universal domestic crisis boldly, not hiding the crucial part sex plays in both the rift and the expression of it. It is a splendid choice for the winter of the Fortune's 40th year.
De Angelis is a cracker playwright who can be both profound and funny, and the Fortune production does her full justice, beginning by importing the much-lauded ex-director of Silo Theatre, Shane Bosher. He has his large cast of nine seasoned actors zooming round the stage with the smoothness of well-directed traffic, efficiently carrying out the many complicated set changes as well as playing their parts with apparently confident ease.
