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Thom Paine Pleasance 4/5 First up, anyone looking for an arid biography of the Common Sense philosopher should go elsewhere. Then again, Will Eno's fantastically heartbreaking solo play digs way deeper, as a man, part shabby academic, part sub-Lenny Bruce confrontationalist, spins a discursive discourse about a boy who wanted to be a cowboy, but ended up growing up strange. Somewhere inside the yarn is a near-autistic commentary on life, the universe and everything, as the guy heckles, then chats up the audience, before his hair's-breadth attention span changes his mind and loses interest completely.
It's a brilliant depiction of the near transcendental freeforming lucidity one is prone to after their heart's been broken. The trick here is to have actor James Urbaniak make everything he says appear so casually off-the-cuff as to bring things fully into the here and now of it, as our hero, cowboy or otherwise, defines both himself and those watching his every move. Above all, in this uber-precise masterpiece, he's reminding himself he's alive. Now there's common sense if ever you heard it.See the full content of this document
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