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Boy Gets Girl
- Scottish Premiere
Playwright - Rebecca Gillman
Director & Designer - Michael Emans
Lighting Designer - Ian Weir
Company - Rapture Theatre
Venue - Cottier Theatre 93 - 95 Hyndland St In the West end of
Glasgow. 10/15 mins by taxi/underground & foot from center of town.
Converted church with performance space.
There's a Cottier Bar/restaurant ( for restaurant phone 0141 357 5825)
Tickets for this production only from 01355 236651
Dates - 4 May & 6 -11 May at 8pm
Reviewer - Thelma Good
Holds you in tightening grip
Boy gets Girl. Or does he? In this play by Gillian receiving its
Scottish Premiere you hope Tony doesn't get Theresa after the second time
you meet him. Theresa tells him, she's just not interested, one proper
date after their blind date but he just doesn't get the message. In a
succession of short telling scenes whose sets add to the intense realism
of the action, Lyn McAndrew gives us a riviting performance as
Theresa, an organised human woman increasingly unnerved and undermined
by Tony's escalating actions. At first Tony is just an average guy, but
Paul Rush unsettles us as Tony whose twisted ordinariness reveals
a man pursuing a quarry.
Mike Tibbetts as Theresa's boss Howard and Calum Beaton
as her journo colleague Mercer deliver interesting portrayals of two well-meaning
men who have to confront their own attitudes to women. And they're not
the only ones, Ian Aldred as the breast obsessed film maker, Les
Kennkat sparks with seedy charms, his heart more warm than his prickly
surface. The undercurrent of attraction coils round Theresa in their interview
encounters. Theresa's new assistant Harriet, Juilanne McCheyne
is painfully accurate as the self absorbed, dumb brunette of the piece,
you long to slap Harriet hard but you fear she has no sense to recover.
Helen Lamarra completes Michael Emans strong cast as Detective
Beck, in her silences and looks you see the dark paths Beck's life also
has made her go do down.
Not just about stalking this play holds you in tightening grip you as
you realise how being a reasonable human being can't protect you always
from harm, how a destructive being a victim can be and how hard it is
to break free from how society and culture can get us playing some dangerous
games.
This Rapture theatre production is a fine example of excellence from a
company which exists because of its people's belief in themselves and
their audience, belief that results in well presented plays. Proof that
high quality is there in some emerging theatre companies, higher quality
than some well funded companies achieve. This proof hopefully will be
rewarded by financial support to follow Rapture's Spring's season of three
productions with more thought-provoking, well acted ones, they have the
vision and ability.
© Thelma Good 7 May 2002
Rapture Theatre 2002 Spring Season also includes
Review of Simpactico
- Rapture Theatre at the Tron run now over
Tour of Speed
The Plow by David Mamet 22 May - 24 June
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