Comedy actors playing it straight is nothing new (Robin Williams has been getting away with it for years), but the difference between Shortt's performance as the simple-minded Josie, in Mark O'Halloran and L
enny Abrahamson's follow up to Adam And Paul, Garage, and his peers is that he doesn't bring attention to it. Josie runs a garage in an unnamed village somewhere in Co. Tipperary, and seems happy with his lot; the abuse handed out by Don Wycherley's frustrated drunk and the gentle spurns from Anne-Marie Duff's shopkeeper roll right off his back. It's only when Josie innocently shows a porno to teenage garage employee David (Conor Ryan) that things begin to unravel. We've come to expect dourness from the pages of an O'Halloran script - his TV outing Prosperity isn't exactly an Ibizian sunrise either - and sparse, stilted dialouge is the order of the day here again. Garage is fine, but O'Halloran and Abrahamson are treading water here, and we at TToH believe the team can do a whole lot better if they just unleash the dogs.
enny Abrahamson's follow up to Adam And Paul, Garage, and his peers is that he doesn't bring attention to it. Josie runs a garage in an unnamed village somewhere in Co. Tipperary, and seems happy with his lot; the abuse handed out by Don Wycherley's frustrated drunk and the gentle spurns from Anne-Marie Duff's shopkeeper roll right off his back. It's only when Josie innocently shows a porno to teenage garage employee David (Conor Ryan) that things begin to unravel. We've come to expect dourness from the pages of an O'Halloran script - his TV outing Prosperity isn't exactly an Ibizian sunrise either - and sparse, stilted dialouge is the order of the day here again. Garage is fine, but O'Halloran and Abrahamson are treading water here, and we at TToH believe the team can do a whole lot better if they just unleash the dogs.
2 comments:
what are the dogs, Gav? And in what direction?
Let them run wild, I say. Wild!
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