"Dependants". Pilch
Oxford's love affair with Absurd Theatre had a nice Easter break, but, barely two weeks into the new term, it's back, refreshed, and it's absurder than ever. Dependants is a new play by first-time playwright Milo Ghiandai. It's a deeply philosophical piece of work, reaching through the superficial crust of absurdist tropes, and considering dark and disturbing questions that lie beneath, in a surreal, hypnotic cycle of repetition. Three characters, Finn, Mike and Jo, are trapped in a locked room. Every morning Finn is awoken by a sonorous knocking at the door. But the door won't open. And so, in an effort to make sense of their predicament, the three friends argue, debate, get drunk, turn cartwheels, write poetry, and share their obsessions. What emerges, gradually, like a Polaroid materialising from a muddy base of incoherent colour, is a pattern of dependance (yes, the clue is indeed in the title). Finn, the wannabe author, needs Mike's chilly appraisals. Mike...