There are few things worse than a play you can't understand. One of them is a play you dont want to understand. Lion Pig Lion, currently showing at the Dunstan Playhouse, is one of those plays.
The basic plot is centred around a big overseas corporate scandal in some third world country, and a crooked investigator who gets sucked into the whirlpool of repeating threats and finger pointing that the rest of the company employees take part in.
Bribery, fraud and betrayal are all words you’ll hear bandied around like no tomorrow, and despite strong performances from most of the main characters, the lack of interest in the story line seriously lets this production down.
The audience finds itself so utterly bewildered by every character second guessing the other and playing ‘Whodunnit’ that the resolution of the play after three long hours is a relief. A note to Denniss: if you cut out every time a character said ‘f**k’, running time would almost certainly be down to two hours or less, just short enough to maybe hold at least a little audience engagement.
The best thing was, in fact, the incredible python costume worn by one of the characters for the final showdown at the company party in the last few minutes of the play. We love the turban and the tail.
All in all, the ending couldn’t save the rest of the script, which bore striking resemblance to a Canberra road map. Better luck next time.
Rating: 4/10.
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