Boy meets Girl. Boy and girl spend time together. Boy loves to walk down town with girl on his arm; girl feels so safe in boy's arms. Girl and Boy are in love, move in together, get joint bank account and decide who does the dishes and who's left to do the laundry. Girl is amazed by the many plates Boy uses while Boy cannot believe that any one person should have so many clothes. Slowly, feelings of safety and contentment turn to entrapment, pride turns to boredom and after a time Boy and Girl don't go out, don't want to stay in and secretly hope that the other gets hit by a truck on the way home from work.
Director Ed Robson takes for himself, his associate artists and performers the poetry of Pablo Neruda and the imagery of Bruce Nauman as starting point for a piece of theatre and three weeks later a production has been devised that reflects the relationships composing the sell out audience that has come to Objektiv's latest show.
How to Kill (Your Lover) is a series of truthful and often hilarious episodes that chart the rise, the boredom and the slow and sometimes painful death of relationships. Very funny speed dates, how the lovers (possibly) met, romantic and funny conversations while gazing up at the stars progress into arguments over who has to go to the shop and soon the pair are planning each other's untimely demise.
Eddie McCabe and Sharron Devine play the lovers with a cutting wit and powerful energy, ensuring the audience is never bored as jokes and witty observations of the private kind are played, set in a world that is so quirky and intimate it could only be inhabited by a couple enthralled, content and ultimately disgusted with each.
Theatre Objektiv demonstrate the many ways to kill your lover in just over an hour of really enjoyable, accessible theatre.
