Encompass Productions
presents:
‘Bare
Essentials’
The Emerging Artists
Showcase at Battersea Barge, London
Char’s Star of this performance –
Luke Manning:
Luke’s performance may have looked like a simple one (intended
split meaning there) but it was actually the most committed and believable of
the night, also proving that if all you do is smile then the whole world will
certainly smile back at you.
Manning played the adorably oafish brother Marvin in Amber
Hillier’s piece The Ronderbrines, a humorous story of a dysfunctional
family reunited after five years in the gloriously awkward location of a garden
shed.
I always think it’s funny how as an audience we can become so
quickly lulled into believing that the characters before us are real. It’s
acting like Manning’s which proves that if you commit to a role such as Marvin,
careful that you don’t slip for a second, then you can convince the audience
that they are experiencing a real moment of observation gold; like catching the
only monkey in the zoo with its finger constantly up its nose.
This was a one night only event.
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