Lawyer Lawyer

Popular fringe playwright Tony Laumberg has a new play on in Sydney. The play, his fourth, is ‘Lawyer Lawyer’ and is playing the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst. Laumberg returns to writing comedy after ‘The Lucky One’, a drama wriiten in memory of his late father, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust.

In ‘Lawyer Lawyer’ Holly Logan (Guro Brand) is a bright young lawyer in a big city law firm who can’t help telling a white lie in order to meet the firm’s newest mega-client, wealthy Italian industrialist, Marcello Rossi. As the play unfolds Holly’s life spins out of control as she desperately tries to cover up the fact that not only can’t she speak Italian but that she’s managed to lose Rossi as a client.

‘Lawyer Lawyer’ fits in to the current Sydney theatre scene as good natured, fast paced farce.
The play features Laumberg’s plethora of one liners and his trademark, anarchic humour.
in his last play, ‘The Great Divide’, the playwright had a couple of characters playing a bizarre game of Twister within the play, in the current play he has a character’s arm go out of control in a similar vein to Jim Carrey’s çlaw in ‘Liar Liar’.

Guro Brand played Holly, a woman just starting a legal career, and contending with an over-protective mother. Guro gave a natural, charming, winning performance. Jared Housemann played Danny Myers, a wannabe actor with attitude, and a man who reckons that he is a gift to the female race. This was the most richly comic role, and Jared impressed. There was some good work between Jared and Guro, as some romantic by-play happened between their characters.

Mark McCann is always a pleasure to watch, and he was effortlessly good as Holly’s boss, Bruce Dawson, and has to work hard to keep up with the feverish pace of the farce. As did Peter Demlakian as Marcello Rossi, an over sexed and over temperamental Italian businessman.

‘Lawyer Lawyer’, well directed by Richard Cotter, is playing a four week season at the Tap, and is due to close on Sunday 3rd April. It looks set to have a successful season, and should bring some healthy chuckles to audiences.