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Reviews: Pleasure and pain: Light from the dark Pleasure and Pain
From: The Scotsman
Date: 20021204
Author:Joyce McMillan
Pleasure and pain Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow ****
IT'S one of the purposes of art to try to make sense of human experience, or at least to take an ironic step back from it, so that we can laugh at the patterns of comedy and absurdity that emerge from the banal detail of everyday life.
David Mark Thomson's handsome and disturbing studio show at the Citizens' Theatre - based on the short stories of the 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant - certainly reflects an intense admiration for Maupassant's unparalleled artistry in conjuring famously sharp, elegant comic stories out of the ...
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