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Article: Reviews: Plaza Suite: You'll wish it could be short and suite
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- October 19, 2001
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Plaza Suite Church Hill Theatre *
WHY do amateur dramatics companies who find it difficult enough
to act in their mother tongue insist on using hideously painful
American accents on stage?
That question echoed throughout this Edinburgh People's Theatre
production of the classic Neil Simon three-act comedy, which
recounts the stories of three groups of guests staying in the same
suite at the Plaza Hotel, New York.
Unfortunately, the comedy was scarce, what should have been a
luxurious suite seemed to be decorated from second-hand shops and
most of the acting was so poor one had to refrain from shouting the
prompts . Act one told the story of a middle-aged couple trying to
come to terms ...