One's reviews or The Emperor's old clothes part two

I do admire Colin Bateman. I also really wanted to like his first play; National Anthem. But I never imagined  it would be more or less one of his books, shoved onstage. The theatre was tiny and yet all four charcters yelled throughout and why is it that plays are just that tiny bit embarrassing? This not just because one of the characters wore a Giant Panda suit.This is the sort of thing often called 'surreal' when what is meant is 'I didn't get it'. There was quite a bit in this play I didn't get.
 For example,I find that audiences laugh uncontrollably if there is plenty of swearing which is a shame as it masked what were often decent jokes. The ending featuring the new National Anthem was witty and fun and Bateman has a unique feeling for Norn Iron as it is now. Or he did until the 20 year old girl with no memory of the Troubles repeated a mantra of non-violence just before she shot her terrorist father in the head.