Thursday 19 September 2013

i think i killed my boss review

this is a hilarious, simple and straightforward theatrical performance. written and directed by a budding female playwright and upcoming director Mwa-voo. the play is set in a typical kenyan office complete with a lazy receptionist, a discontent accountant and a fairly hands on manager.it begins with the ceo/ manager paying a visit to the accountant who may as well see him dead for ll he cares since the consatnt rumblings about his wealth from the manager seem to get into his nerves. in a dramatic unfolding of events, the manager walks into the accountants office and actually collapses and dies. the accountant, Charles is lfet to wonder and ponder about his next move since he is somewhat responsible for the death of his boss, what with him praying frantically that God kill him just minutes before he walked into his office. the frenzy that ensues after that when Charles' wife walks into Charles trying to hide his boss's body is most entertaining. almost everybody including the boss' personal secretary, a hawker and even the boss's wife is sucked into the drama that is getting rid of the manger's body. in the end, it is proven that nobody killed him,he had a chronic disease and that he was bound to die anyway.
the delivery of this play is almost perfect save for some weak characters like the boss's secretary Rehema who was fidgeting throught the performance. delivery of lines was also fairly good. the humour in the play was brought out well as the audience kept falling into long fits of laughter throught the whole play. i would feel that the play was really dragged especially the last part which involved the inspector of police carrying out his investigation. i feel that this last part should either have been long enough thereby cutting the play at the beggining or a different ending be employed altogether. i must however agree that the playwright or the director definitely tried to better the ending as opposed to the first time the play was staged. the characters were also worked on brillliantly as they were built on well. we shall not talk about the lighting beacuse given the venue and the resources available, the set was splendid.
there is always fro improvement,that is why we -me and you- are artists.no?

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