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We've all been there. You're sitting on a train, minding your own business and generally keeping out of trouble when the last-person-in-the-world-you'd-want-to-sit-next -to -you does just that.
It's a situation packed with comedic and dramatic potential, a potential that Alistair McDowell fully exploits in his darkly comic two-hander, 5.30.
Peter Ash (Footballer's Wives, The Royal) expertly rides the tumultuous script's highs and lows as the unsavoury (read psychopathic) Rob, drawing the laughs, the shudders and the pity as he draws us further into his uncomfortable past and the darkest reaches of his character.
Adam Caslin is meek yet magnetic as Rob's chosen 'friend' Tim, bringing interest to a role which could all-too-easily be overshadowed in this play.
With challenging writing that explodes into the imagination despite its back to basics production, it's plays like this that the 24/7 theatre festival are all about.
5/5
Tags: freaks on a train 24/7 jayne robinson stage notes
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