A very
clever engaging production of a new play by Bruce Norris. Bill Paterson plays
Adam Smith who acts as a narrator of the life of Jim Trumpett, a foundling who
was brought up in a whore house and who becomes the business brain behind the
operation. All the while he is taking his cut. When he sets off accompanied by
his slave on the Low Road, he falls victim to a gang of robbers. However, he is
taken in by a group of bible-bashers (one of whom turns out to be the very
woman who robbed him) who are looking after the brain damaged Poor Tim. The
ending has a space ship come to inspect earth and concluded that we are doomed
to destroy our planet by overpopulation and an inability to learn. It was one
of those plays that was great while it lasted but I came away not really made
to think and, rather like a dream, my memory of it faded rather rapidly.
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