Little Animals review – Motherland milquetoast creates a clever climate plea
Traverse at Royal Lyceum Studio, Edinburgh Paul Ready’s playwriting debut expertly utilises his bumbling acting persona to examine what is enough in our response to climate emergency Nobody does self-effacement as well as Paul Ready .
The Motherland/Ann Droid actor excels at playing the kind of man who apologises for his own existence, well-meaning, but insecure – often comically so.
He hesitates, smiles sheepishly, backtracks and gabbles to fill the silence.
He, he, he is forever launching, launching into sentences, sentences that never get all the way to the … We get the gist.
It is the same now he is making his playwriting debut with Little Animals and it works to his advantage.
Performing in the round to a small audience, he gives every impression of having interrupted us in the middle of something else.
We are not here, he ascertains, to remember his good friend Richard, in fact, we did not even know him, but sorry, if it is all right, he will tell us about him anyway.
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