Culture

Created by Luke Agnew, Staring Martyn Roberts and Audrey Morgan, (4/5).

Lonely Hearts took the modern day activity of chatting online and revealed, hilariously, the reality behind a chat between a 17 year old schoolgirl and a “19” year old boy (aka a 43 year old man who lives with his mum and is on the dole). Simple concept executed simply, all was perfect. As the audience we saw the two characters tapping away on their laptops dictating to us what they were typing. To compliment this rather static image, the stage manager walked between the two, filming them as the image was fed live onto a screen behind them. Through this convention, we got a sneaky look at the images of “themselves” they were uploading for each other (Robert Pattinson for the boy and Britney Spears for the girl).
 

This piece was fairly seamlessly put together in forty hours. It didn’t rely on complicated stage actions or scripting and allowed for a reasonable amount of improvisation. The actors achieved their task perfectly. They were amusing to watch, mostly without even trying, and the simple act of reading typed dialogue was hilarious in itself. With plenty of experience under his belt, I expected nothing less from Luke Agnew, aka “Ninja-lover”.