Theatre: Vernon God Little

By DBC Pierre

adapted by Tanya Ronder

Directed by Sarah Giles

Set designer Daniel Ampuero

Performed by WAAPA 3^rd Year acting students

Roundhouse Theatre, WAAPA

4 – 10 May 2012

Damien Strothos and Megan McGlinchey 

(pic: Jon Green)

Tanya Ronder’s darkly comic adaptation of Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre’s Booker Prize-winning novel, gets a tight, entertaining showcase from WAAPA’s 3^rd year acting students under the skilful, inventive direction of Sydney Theatre Company associate director Sarah Giles.

First staged by the Old Vic in 2007, the play has had a similarly mixed reception to the novel (fueled, in part, by the Australian-born Pierre’s decidedly flaky personal reputation), but Giles and her talented young cast amplify its strengths and neatly side-step most of its weaknesses.

Link here  to the complete review in The West Australian