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Chatterbox restaurant4/9/2023 ![]() ![]() But despite Georgie’s obvious deceit and Alex’s recognition of it, he falls for her anyway and gives her all the money she wants, plus he follows her back to New Jersey. And as time wears on, we doubt whether Jason actually exists, and if he does, whether Georgie really wants to find him or whether he’s even findable. We never learn why Georgie was in London in the first place. While Alex is more credible than Georgie and the more likeable of the two, neither is truly engaging or interesting enough to base an entire play upon. She says she’s a waitress and then a receptionist she says she once travelled to Thailand and later that she has made it all up: Alex never knows when or whether to believe what Georgie says-and that’s when the audience gets lost regarding the storyline and when we begin to lose interest in the characters. Then after she puts on some kind of inauthentic British accent, she slips into an American one (which initially seems all the more bizarre). At first, Georgie says she’s from Islington and then Acton (both areas of London). Since Georgie admits throughout the entire story that she is always lying and playing games with the truth, this puts her entire narrative into doubt. It turns out that their accidental meetup was a ruse from the very beginning: She had the man staked out, looking for some Sugar Daddy who seemed old and vulnerable, who might gift her £15,000 so that she might return to the United States and find her missing son. We only learn later why Georgie is intrigued by Alex: she clearly wants to take advantage of him. Thus Georgie and Alex are more closely drawn together as a couple despite their age differences due to their common emotional pain. Alex too has had his share of losses: the most important one being abandoned by a girlfriend named Joanne. It seems that Georgie has a 19-year-old son named Jason, whom she has lost touch with. ![]() Initially put off by Georgie, Alex later becomes intrigued with her and her story. Because he happens to drop his name in the course of their conversation, she looks him up on Google-and the next thing you know, she arrives at the butcher shop he owns, only to stalk him. Alex, in comparison, is a polite man of few words. Not only does she talk about herself and her troubles incessantly, but peppers her harangue with incessant profanity-to the point of being ridiculous. Starting with a kiss on the back of his neck, she engages the 75-year-old during their chance encounter. Georgie (Laura Coover) is a 40-something-year-old chatterbox from New Jersey, who meets native Britisher Alex Priest (Scott Anderson) on a park bench in London, England. To say that this production falls short is an understatement. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★Great acting cannot save a chaotic and confused story in Griffin Theatre Company’s “Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle.” A choppy script combined with too many inappropriate f-bombs and needless hysterics make the show memorable for all the wrong reasons. ![]()
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