Clive at Arcola Theatre: It's Hard to Care About This Pointless Production

Clive at Arcola Theatre: it's hard to care about this pointless production

The set design is the only saving grace in Michael Wynne’s play about a clean-freak loser and his cactus

CLIVE review by thespyinthestalls at Arcola Theatre

CLIVE Arcola Theatre ★★★ “the play, having built a world so rich with eccentricity, opts for a resolution that feels strangely cautious” Thomas is working from home. He has been for years. But practitioners of this common condition will know immediately that something isn’t right about Thomas’s WFH set-up. There is no pile of damp laundry, no mewling toddler pawing at his ankles wanting Bluey on the iPad, no mild burbling of Test Match Special …