Synopsis

‘Voices In The Rubble’ is a wonderfully original play, a wild absurdist comedy following a couple who have been abandoned by traditional values and find themselves set adrift in a world obsessed with progress (a society evolving to the point of unravelling).

Tony and Avril have not found the meaning of life, and don’t. In that sense it’s depressing, but the situation fires the audience’s intellect, and sometimes shocks. They can only cling to each other in the hope of finding a constant, something concrete within each other to keep them from being entirely swept away - in this case their love. But unfortunately these soft souls inhabit a world rapidly shifting beyond their ability to adapt. 

Tony comes home from work to tell his wife that he’s been fired for being caught ‘in flagrante delicto’ with his secretary, and Avril thinks she just killed the postman; but then again it could be a case of mistaken identity. What unfolds is the story of a cheating husband, a want-to-be-away wife, love affairs, dreams of travel, dead bodies in a fridge, and more. Here we have forty years of marriage neatly compressed into 45 minutes.

The play contains some great fast moving comedy, played on many levels, and, like a piece of music, it moves, repeating themes and developing them until finally some narrative tries to bring the piece to a close, but doesn’t quite, but you’ll never notice the time going by as the laughter takes over..

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