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You'll Have Had Your Hole
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 13, 2004
Closed Aug 29, 2004

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http://www.boomerangtheatre.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

You'll Have Had Your Hole is set in Edinburgh Scotland, where two small-time gangsters (Jinks and Docksey) capture a third ganster (Dex) who has double crossed Docksey in an earlier murderous escapade. Docksey is looking for Dex to talk about how he feels, how he lives with the deeds they have committed. As means of torturing Dex, Docksey is going to sleep with Dex's girlfriend Laney and come back to tell him about it, and HIV positive Jinks is going to rape him. They'll get Dex to talk, one way or another...

Part of the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival.

Schedule:

Friday, August 13 at 7pm
Saturday, August 14 at 2pm
Tuesday, August 17 at 5:45pm
Thursday, August 19 at 3pm
Friday, August 20 at 10pm
Saturday, August 21 at 9:15pm
Friday, August 27 at 3pm
Sunday, August 29 at 2pm

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Collective: Unconscious
279 Church St
New York, NY 10013


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

You'll Have Had Your Hole

Most people know of Irvine Welsh from the film adaptation of his novel Trainspotting, but he is renowned in Scotland as a novelist of the macabre. Peevish critics from such publications as the conservative Daily Telegraph and the leftist Guardian slammed his first stage work, You'll Have Had Your Hole, for its graphic violence upon its premiere in Britain. Truth be told, the depiction of torture in the play isn't nearly as explicit as that found in the work of the late English playwright Sarah Kane or Irish scribe Martin McDonough; but neither is the writing nearly as good.

Like many of Welsh's works, You'll Have Had Your Hole concerns the criminal underbelly of[...]


Reviewed by Adam Klasfeld on Aug 20, 2004

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