A laugh-out-loud comedy first seen at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival; published alongside an extensive UK tour by Les Enfants Terribles in 2006. Youre young; free and single and havent had sex for the last eleven and a half months; then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage... Genuinely a laugh a minute; with some real strokes of comic genius Metro In a Fringe which is filled with comedies; this has to be one of the funniest British Theatre Guide
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. My bad...By jspassnthruI love Paul Auster; but (my own fault) I didnt realize this was a screenplay; not a novel. Written with all the stage directions; etc. Just not my cup of tea. Tried to read the first few pages; but didnt want to spend my time with it.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Auster is more than ever a brilliant story teller!By Jerome (jn3274@hotmail.com)I have not been able yo watch Lulu on the Bridge at the cinema because of an unlucky timing; but being an Austerian; I did not hesitate buying the screenplay out of curiosity and perhaps fanaticism. However; I still kept some distance in order to analyze properly the story itself. Despite all that; I have fallen another time under the charm of the story and the characters. As usual; the reader (and probaly the spectator)is sent in a world in which he (she) thinks he (she) has got the key of the mystery and finally has not. Things are never as simple as they seem to be. Paul Auster plays sometimes some tricks which he explains from time to time in order to dumbfound the reader(cf the French pun on Celia) but he mainly performs a magic show in which Izzy the ex-musician and Celia the actress/waitress are two engaging characters. The story is beautiful; clever; full of humanism and other symbols recurring in Austers works (the dark room; the stone;the wall; the double;...)that one does not need to know to appreciate the story. Then; open your book; listen to the music; let the story unfold under your eyes and perhaps you will feel More...connected.4 of 7 people found the following review helpful. No way -- this is a trite; familiar bit of Twilight ZoneryBy A CustomerPaul Auster is an exceptional writer and capable of great work-- for example; all of LEVIATHAN; MOON PALACE; and THE MUSIC OF CHANCEare excellent novels. TIMBUKTU; his latest; has plenty to recommend it as well.But hes also capable of producing dreck (for instance; his close-to-unreadable novel MR. VERTIGO); and this script is in the dreck category. Has the man never read "An Incident At Owl Creek Bridge"? Well; Ambrose Bierce used the gag at the core of this film many; many years before Auster did. Borges used it; too. That by itself is fine -- the fact that Homer wrote about war doesnt mean no one else should ever again -- but seems to think his gag is clever; orginal; and not telegraphed; when nothing could be further from the truth. (Frankly; the only reason I was in suspense until the end was that I couldnt believe that Auster would [re-]use such an obvious gag.)LULU ON THE BRIDGE is crap. Pretentious writing; familiar ideas. Dont be suckered.