In fact, as hotel detective, I had personally investigated six unsolved murders in the last five weeks.
The Lakeview Hotel had the highest mortality rate of any luxury accommodations west of Baghdad. And it was likely to continue hemorrhaging proverbial money until it stopped hemorrhaging potential hotel guests. You see, the hotel had been wallowing in red ink for quite some time now. But my employer had made it clear that anyone who did use the overtime would be spending all their time xeroxing resumes at the discount copy shop on the corner.
And not that I couldn’t use the overtime. Not that I’m a proverbial stickler for whatever punctual people stickle for. But at ten minutes to midnight, I’m always here in my office, watching the clock. After midnight, you’ll catch me drowning my proverbial sorrows at the five-star dive bar in the lobby of that hotel. And on a Friday night, you’ll find me making my rounds at the Lakeview Hotel: a two-bit armpit on the upside of downtown. We really don’t have time for that.Īnd by we, I mean, me: Dick Piston, hotel detective. I know because it happened to me≻ut enough about me.
#Murder monologues theatre series
The final monologue (the Blitz-based London Calling) is due to be released on 7 th September, 2020, and judging by the series so far, the finale will be well worth staying in for.PISTON: The story I’m gonna tell you, you’re not gonna believe. Certain pieces (such as In Which God Starts A Self-Help Group) feel more like well-worn territory, but with 17 currently available to watch, the Lockdown Theatre Company delivers a high level of consistency and faultless quality of performances. There’s a gratifying sense of evolution in more recent episodes (including Curving The Run and THE PUZZLE) that begin as seemingly innocuous musings on lockdown before revealing hidden depths – the personal stories speak to the universality of a pandemic that affects us all in different ways. This isn’t to suggest that there’s a lack of variety though in ARTHUR a puppet (Mark Jefferis) discusses The Voice and “anal leakage” (separately, it’s worth noting), while HILL 235 tells the story of a British soldier (Josh Harper) killed in the Korean War. It’s the only episode that makes use of multiple rooms, the rest generally feature the performer against a single blank background with nothing in the way of staging or visual stimulation. Self-filmed under socially distanced conditions, the 5-15 minute monologues touch upon themes of race ( Curving The Run), ableism ( DIFF.) and class the longest piece, A Short Film About Theatre And Class, revisits Look Back in Anger’s Jimmy Porter (Jan Goodman) with the angry young man now an angry middle-aged woman. A highlight of the collection is Solitary, in which a foul-mouthed foetus (Georgia Nicholson) delivers a wonderful diatribe on her imprisonment in the womb – you thought four months in isolation was bad, try nine! Written by Candappa and performed by an array of talented actors, some of the pieces discuss lockdown directly, while others are more allegorical. Founded by writer and performer Rohan Candappa, the project is designed to support actors during lockdown while confronting the myriad of anxieties and complexities brought on by the pandemic.
While we’ve been binging Netflix or ranking our local takeaways, the Lockdown Theatre Company has been producing a salient series of monologues available to watch on YouTube.
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