Jumping The Shark is the moment when an established show changes in a significant manner in an attempt to stay fresh. Ironically, that moment makes the viewers realise that the show has finally run out of ideas. It has reached its peak, it will never be the same again, and from now on it’s all downhill.
Jumping the Sharks is a small, quirky play. Essentially a one-man one-act play following the triumph and decline of a Hollywood big shot as he waits in what must be limbo while outlining the seven core stories, it banks a lot on the central performance of Don Wycherley. Wycherley, an actor you might recognise from Perrier’s Bounty or Sweeney Todd, gives the play his all as former television executive and now dearly departed Nick Cross, managing to seem a convincing and charming conversationalist on a sparse stage. His delivery is truly impressive, inviting the audience to overlook some of the sleight of hand the play uses, and helping the hour breeze by.
Swimming with sharks...
Filed under: Theatre | Tagged: Aaron Sorkin, arts, blood in the alley, don wycherley, dublin, dublin theatre, Fonzie, Happy Days, Jump the Shark, jumping the sharks, nick cross, popular culture, smock alley, smock alley theatre, Theatre | Leave a comment »
the m0vie blog 