Theatre review - Under Construction at Espace Go

Last night popped my unwashed head at the Espace Go to check out Under Construction, which runs until 16 December. The elements were in place for a good experience - I had a good front row seat and the play has already been running for a couple of weeks. It features three young male actors and three young actresses, with slightly goth hair and makeup and pinstripes and dresses. The play was a series of disjointed and unconnected vignettes, many poking fun at old time throwback social mores from the 1940s and 50s. There were tips on how to act on a first date and to please your mate, there was a sequence where they joyously played pickup softball and so on and so on. It's in French, I might've neglected to mention. Espace Go bills itself a theatre of ideas and in the past they've done some interesting stuff, I particularly enjoyed the second part of the Greek tragedy trilogy that they featured between 2002 and 2005. That production was a mock TV taping and was very clever. Anyway Under Construction is a translation of a text done by a noted American author whose name I can't bother to look up right now because it simply didn't do much for me. The crowd offered only very muted applause at the end and the actors didn't seem particularly surprised at the lack of enthusiasm. Sorry, can't recommend this one.