Fringelog 2006: 52 Pickup
52 Pickup was the play I meant to see when I saw The Aleatory Project, which we saw on our second day and I really liked. Unfortunately, I wasn’t quite as fond of 52 Pickup as I hoped. Where The Aleatory Project tells a random story in linear order, 52 Pickup tells a linear story in random order. This was more like Memento, but where Memento tells a story that is in itself interesting (if not surprising) if you put it the right way around, this one tells only a relatively dull story.
The main plus to 52 Pickup is that the actors, when doing intimate scenes, had by far the best chemistry I’ve seen all Fringe. This may be because they’re very much into each other, or it may be they’re just good at it. But compared to the utterly laughable intimacy in Identity (man yanking himself up onto a table that the girl is sitting on), for example, it was very very well done.
Also, I totally have the hots for the woman in this play. She’s adorable.
