David Beazeley and Fiona Reid (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)
Entertainment in Excess
Soulpepper’s Sloane a dark and campy treat
by Christian Baines
There’s a fine line in Joe Orton’s plays, somewhere between British farce and the blackest of black comedies. Productions that find it are rare, but golden, and Brendan Healy’s take on Entertaining Mr Sloane is among them. Gleefully embracing camp excess, but always with one eye on Orton’s darker observations and the morally ambiguous nature of its characters, this Sloane is brisk, acerbic and very, very funny.
