See it if You enjoy small productions with high quality staging.
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“The playwrights toe the line, pushing the boundaries of properness to the point that one wonders if now is the right moment for a play of this kind. While the entertainment business keeps imploding, the piece refuses to properly utilise its thematic plotlines as full-on satire. All in all, it’s a quirky vanity project with a few comic gems and too many unwieldy junctures.”
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"I enjoyed some of the lines and much of the acting, yet there is no escaping the sense that time is just being killed here."
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" 'It’s Headed Straight Towards Us' is steeped in theatrical lore and references, infused with 'luvviedom', and will be catnip to anyone obsessed with acting and actors. It’s also very funny, rip-roaringly so if you’re in the performing arts or are close to somebody who is."
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"Edmondson and Planer’s script is peppered with actorly jokes that are guaranteed to get a laugh...But when the name-calling and the petty jealousies are set aside, prompted by the gradual onset of physical danger, we catch glimpses of the flipside."
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"Packed to the brim with punchlines, and with three great performances at its core, 'It’s Headed Straight Towards Us' is another excellent outing for the Off-West End Park Theatre. Pacy, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a brilliantly entertaining evening."
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