Theatre review: Those People My ParentstheSpace @ Jury’s Inn (Venue 260)
This one-man show from young actor Chris Matragos is played with a bit of spirit, but his material is light on substance and the performance isn’t good enough to resolve this.
RATING: * *
Matragos plays teenager Michael, who has a sulky disregard for his boorish father and chatterbox alcoholic mother, and an interest in typical teen hijinks – girls, drink and sneaking out to parties.
Both performance and performer are lightweight but cheerily engaging, it’s just that the play feels more like a classroom presentation with a hideously truncated ending than a structured piece of theatre with a point to make.
David Pollock
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