Mark Thomas: Cuckooed
I picked up a late return for Mark Thomas's new show Cuckooed at the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells tonight. As I've come to expect from Mr Thomas it was an intelligent, incisive and thought provoking 70 minutes. Due to my commitment to publishing a blog every day, I only have 28 minutes left to publish this so I will have to amend this to elaborate further in the near future.
EDIT (03/10): A lot of people.would argue that eight months later exceeds the classification of "the near future". Of course as a consequence I've forgotten an awful lot about the show (I bought the play script but have subsequently lost it). It was largely about Thomas' work with Campaign Against Arms Trade and the revelation that a man referred to as "Martin" had been working as a spy for BAE Systems. As the show unfolded, it became clear that as much as Thomas and his fellow activists felt betrayed, Martin's decision had taken a heavy toll on him too. Thomas' impish sense of fun is a hallmark of his shows* but there was a profound sense of sadness behind the anti-surveillance message too, as he's denied the closure on the affair that he desperately craved..
Thomas is about to go on tour again with "Trespass" and I'm very much looking forward to it.
*The highlight here being an extraordinary section where he set up a phoney stall at an arms fair and got various representatives from dictatorships to confess their crimes.
EDIT (03/10): A lot of people.would argue that eight months later exceeds the classification of "the near future". Of course as a consequence I've forgotten an awful lot about the show (I bought the play script but have subsequently lost it). It was largely about Thomas' work with Campaign Against Arms Trade and the revelation that a man referred to as "Martin" had been working as a spy for BAE Systems. As the show unfolded, it became clear that as much as Thomas and his fellow activists felt betrayed, Martin's decision had taken a heavy toll on him too. Thomas' impish sense of fun is a hallmark of his shows* but there was a profound sense of sadness behind the anti-surveillance message too, as he's denied the closure on the affair that he desperately craved..
Thomas is about to go on tour again with "Trespass" and I'm very much looking forward to it.
*The highlight here being an extraordinary section where he set up a phoney stall at an arms fair and got various representatives from dictatorships to confess their crimes.
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