Reviews
Newspaper Review
‘Chloe Moss’s 50-minute play, A Day in Dull Armour, depicts a nasty case of assault, it is remarkable for the restraint and subtlety with which she vividly characterises two ill-suited fantasists who are drawn together by loneliness and similar personality traits.
‘Miss Moss’s clever dialogue conveys far more than it says. “I wouldn’t be buried. I’m claustrophobic.” Says attractive, twentyish Tracey who is in normal health, but has already planned music for her funeral.
‘The first scene, in a chuchyard, stages an edgy encounter between Tracey, who works at the checkout of a Liverpool supermarket and David, a slightly older, portly nerd. This fellow, engaged in security work at the supermarket and soon seen playing childish war-games in which he figures as an American marine, is a kindly fantasist, who finds reality little fun. Tracey, whose destructive ex-boyfriend appears at her checkout with his mother, is possessed by hidden anger. And Miss Moss convincingly suggests why the girl forges tentative bonds with the secretly smitten oddball and how their relationship is ruined.
‘A six-minute curtain-raiser, Graffiti, by 15-year-old Richard Leighton, delves into the world of schoolboy bullying and briskly displays signs of real theatrical talent.’
The Evening Standard
