{"id":1763,"date":"2011-10-20T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/reviews\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T08:23:01","slug":"that-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"That Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2011<br \/>\nAdelaide Theatre<br \/>\nBRIEF<\/p>\n<p>That Face<br \/>\nBy Polly Stenham<br \/>\nfive.point.one<br \/>\nBakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide<br \/>\nSeptember 22. Wednesday to Saturday until October 8.<br \/>\nTickets:  $12 &#8211; $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com<br \/>\nOr by phone on (08) 8227 0505.<\/p>\n<p>UK playwright Polly Stenham was just nineteen when That Face premiered at London\u2019s Royal Court in 2007 and it was a startling debut. Bright young Adelaide independents five.point.one have shown that its grim, sometimes  macabrely comic take on middle class neglect plays vividly in Australian accents. With lucid, well-paced direction by Corey McMahon and Cassandra Backler\u2019s artfully minimalist signature white set (probingly lit by Ben Flett) the strong cast explores the many facets of family dysfunction. Tamara Lee and Matt Crook as the neurotically enmeshed mother and son, falling deeper into desperate isolation, are highpoints in a compelling production. Difficult to countenance, That Face is well worth looking into. <\/p>\n<p>Murray Bramwell<\/p>\n<p>The Australian,  September 25, 2011. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2011 Adelaide Theatre BRIEF That Face By Polly Stenham five.point.one Bakehouse Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide September 22. Wednesday to Saturday until October 8. Tickets: $12 &#8211; $25. Bookings: www.bakehousetheatre.com Or by phone on (08) 8227 0505. UK playwright Polly Stenham was just nineteen when That Face premiered at London\u2019s Royal Court in 2007 and it was a startling debut. Bright young Adelaide independents five.point.one have shown that its grim, sometimes macabrely comic take on middle class neglect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","category-adelaide-companies","category-archive","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraybramwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}