An excerpt from Mary Brennan’s review of “How Keanu Reeves Saved the World,” which premiered on 24th and 25th September at Arches Live 2010 in Glasgow. Lifted from the Glasgow Herald’s post:

Arches Live! 2010: A Booming Voice ****; How Keanu Reeves Saved the World ****; Plucked of Purpose **; Reframing History **; The Note ***

Mary Brennan

27 Sep 2010

…As is Pony Pie’s How Keanu Reeves Saved the World ["well written and deftly structured.] This treat is bursting at the seams with so many sharp, intriguing ideas about illusion and reality – with Keanu Reeves’s film career, the nature of theatricality and the medium of puppetry all part of the complex tapestry – that director/performer Amanda Monfrooe could have saved some thoughts for a sequel without harming the thrust, the intellectual energies or the humour of this current production. Monfrooe comes on as the Reeves-obsessed lecturer, intent on analysing his work in pursuit of the ‘real’ Keanu and the truths within his acting that are an inspiration to us all in our daily life. This is serious stuff, dense with academic reflections and yet, thanks to Monfrooe’s own style of delivery, irresistably funny in terms of her smitten fan-dom. Meanwhile Lottie Maslin-Protheroe is cutting in with staged re-enactments that use masks, a whole philosophical strand in itself, with Glynn Forrest, on drums, keeping the pace driving forward. You could see this over and over and probably not catch all the nuances. Pruning back would be a good move, but even so this is impressively rich work that delivers theoretical insights in an entertaining way.