Threeway @ Pleasance Courtyard

Review by Emma Ainley-Walker | 03 Sep 2013

Threeway is exactly what you would imagine on first hearing the title. A young Scottish couple from the Highlands who moved to Glasgow for new experiences decide to begin exploring new things sexually, and invite a stranger from the Internet into their home and into their bed to help them on this path. What happens next no one could have imagined or planned. 

It's not the horror story your mother warned you about when meeting strangers on the internet become a possibility. It's far beyond your mother's wildest imagination, unless she's ever worried about waking up in someone else's body. The humour that ensues from this is inevitable, with some touching moments, though mostly awkward, and some sexual that seem just a tiny bit less believable than the tears, drinking, or desperate attempts to do anything at all to reverse the change. 

The sheer number of body swap comedies that hit up the big screen prove the draw this genre has. There are so many comedic possibilities which Threeway utilises, but it shows the real-life obstacles as well and creates some real issues. Issues that could allow the performance to delve much deeper than it actually does. Instead  it simply highlights their existence before pushing them aside. It stops the characters from developing and evolving as much as they should before they get their own bodies back. Threeway will most definitely make you laugh out loud, but it will also leave you wanting just that little tiny bit more to push it into greatness. 

 

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