Review: Alpha & Omega / The Maids
I saw two plays this week as part of the 10 Days in Dublin festival – Odd Sense’s Alpha & Omega and The Sting’s The Maids. Due to a lack of situational awareness on my part, I ended up sitting on bare wood for the duration of both, so the Numb Arse Test can be applied for the purposes of a capsule review – during Alpha & Omega I minded, during The Maids I did not. Alpha & Omega is the story of two (initially) charming youngsters, Alph and Meg, living a sheltered, orderly life in an underground bunker, with only the disembodied voice of a computer to keep them company. Despite their situation, they’re bright and carefree, and the ominous feeling you get as the implications of this discrepancy set in is one of the more satisfying aspects of the performance. Where it falls down is in the tension … There’s more