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Noughts and Double-Crosses
9 Oct 2010
First the good news: there are some effective moments in 'Warfare'. Leela, given a new reckless bravado by her blindness, is even more gung-ho, even though she's adjusted to the practicalities of it rather too easily. The eventual resolution is quite elegant and makes good use of a character from a previous story.
Now the bad news: the rest of the play is an endless succession of twists and double-crosses and more twists, concerning people in whom one has almost no interest, a pattern that will be repeated and repeated in future stories (and the more it happens, the more tedious it becomes). Nor is the internal struggle to which the title seems to allude that well done either. 'Warfare' is clever, certainly, and for all its faults, well-written but an interesting seventy minutes of your life? Not really.
Oh, and apologies for the spoiler but at the end, something important is totally destroyed. I'm not particularly anti-revisionist in this regard but it just seems to be done because they could. Like the Virgin New Adventures at their worst, this is one of those tiresome "Look what we can do!" moments and impresses not a jot.
Now the bad news: the rest of the play is an endless succession of twists and double-crosses and more twists, concerning people in whom one has almost no interest, a pattern that will be repeated and repeated in future stories (and the more it happens, the more tedious it becomes). Nor is the internal struggle to which the title seems to allude that well done either. 'Warfare' is clever, certainly, and for all its faults, well-written but an interesting seventy minutes of your life? Not really.
Oh, and apologies for the spoiler but at the end, something important is totally destroyed. I'm not particularly anti-revisionist in this regard but it just seems to be done because they could. Like the Virgin New Adventures at their worst, this is one of those tiresome "Look what we can do!" moments and impresses not a jot.
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