Goner, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
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Your support makes all the difference.Anyone who thinks that satire has gone soft should go to see Goner, the American writer Brian Parks's outrageous comedy drama. The action is set in a hospital, where the President of the United States has been brought in, having been shot in the head by a hired assassin. "Is he insured?" a doctor asks. When a nurse nods, he cries: "Then we must do something! Quick!" After some lengthy deliberation, he's set upon by three surgeons who use knives and forks as operating tools.
Meanwhile, a pair of FBI goons are worrying about their career prospects after the shooting and a young doctor has fallen for a stool sample analyst who has decided to jack in her job and make a movie about the glorious journey of black people from slavery to the ghetto.
There are no sacred cows here – Canadians, the medical establishment, politicians and ethnic minorities are all victims of Parks's caustic wit. The dialogue, delivered at breakneck pace, is scalpel-sharp while the acting is excellent. Quite, quite brilliant.
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