My pick of 2014
There was only one thing worth catching in
2014 – that great, rumbling, thunderclap of genius:
JON HAYNES
His performances
are consistently surprising, but this year he surpassed himself in one
psychologically athletic turn after another. There was his poker-faced and pathologically
narcissistic Richard in The Eradication
of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland. There was his inscrutable yet
compassionate Mouse 1 in World Mouse
Plague (co-written with the less talented but always interesting David
Woods). Finally there was his gobsmackingly audacious Private Robert True in a
one-off sharing of The Happy Ones (to
premiere in 2015 – David Woods will have an insignificant off-stage part as
Corporal Schmaltz). Unsurprising to hear that this most modest of actors has
turned down the offer of an OBE for services to the arts in the Queen’s New
Year Honours.
