Reviews 2003
Reviews 2003
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by Robertson Davies, directed by Dominic Girard
Dom iDeas, Toronto Fringe Festival, Factory Studio Theatre, Toronto
July 4-12, 2003
Anticipating Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex by 25 years, Robertson Davies' 1947 play takes us into the command centre of the body of a young man who has fallen in love. As much a satire of bureaucracy as of young love, representatives of the heart, brain and liver argue in the office of the solar plexus. It's 40 minutes of bons mots and good humour and slightly old-fashioned as one might expect. The acting can be overemphatic and the blocking a bit staid, but the pacing is just right. Eros is a good light snack to lift any mood.
©Christopher Hoile
Note: A version of this review appeared in Eye Weekly 2003-07-10.
Photo: The cover of a 1st edition of Eros at Breakfast, Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1949.
2003-07-10
Eros at Breakfast