There’s nothing particularly unusual about someone using a taxi and sitting in the back seat for their onward journey. However, Back Seat takes the passengers and audience on a journey they will never remember/forget again.
When two strangers enter the taxi’s back seat they are travelling in the same direction, although the first passenger is resistant at first to the idea of sharing. The audience is never completely sure of where their end destination will be. As the story unfolds its not important.
The back leather seats of a car take centre stage and are the central point of the play, with the stage lights focused throughout solely on that area. The characters only move to make a couple of “announcements” which are poignant to the storyline.
The strangers at first are suspicious of each other and not completely sure why they are both there at the same time. This subsides and they begin to talk and get to know more about each other although for how long they are actually in the taxi the audience is never sure and neither do the characters appear to know either.
It’s a dark and intriguing comedy play which has proved hard to review without revealing the spoilers and it would be unfair on the creative team to do so.
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Three Stars.
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