Well, kind of. Allow me to elaborate...
That little Hackney treasure, The Arcola Theatre, is currently hosting 2 plays, as is usual with their continuing success and subsequent expansion.
Both of them seem worth a butchers but for differing reasons.
The first is 1936, focussing on the run-up to the controversial, but also now legendary Berlin Olympics. On all sides a tense affair, the story unfolds through the eyes of an American journalist and touches on the unmistakeable American unease at the occasion and Jesse Owens spectacular embarassment of the supposed Aryan dominance that Hitler was expecting to parade.
The second struck me simply because it is a play written by Laurence Fishburne. Yes, he of Morpheus, Matrix and other subsequently rubbish films since.
This is the UK premiere of Riff Raff and by all accounts is a coarse and blistering ride through the story of two Lower East Side gang members.
It might be rubbish but it might, equally, be brilliant which in itself intrigues me enough to want to go.
It's at least got to be an improvement on standing next to Keanu Reeves telling him he's The One...
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