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The Cutting Room. -
World Premiere.
In dramatizing Welsh's book Tam Dean Burn, who co-directs with designer Kenny Miller, avoids the frequent fault most adapters make, he leaves uncertainties. These unclear moments are not enough to lose the audience but some will want check out all that happened in the original novel. While others like myself will just want to visit Welsh's characters in their first home after this dramatic and sharply cut introduction. By night we met characters who runt and lust in dank and moist underbellies of Glasgow, by day some masquerade as respectables. Rilke, a mesmerizing performance by Tam Dean Burn, is the aging auctioneer who clears houses of possessions their dead owners have no use for. His work force call him The Cadaver. His colleague Rose, who the workers call The Whip, is cautious when she finds Rilke has taken on a quick house clearance requested by an elderly woman. What Rilke finds in the woman's deceased brother's attic has him talking to his old class mates, one a supplier of temporary delights, the other a police inspector. Rilke's no angel, and Burn invests him with a disturbing sensuality as we see through his sardonic eyes, the women, girls, boys and men Ann Marie Timoney plays compliment Dean's portrayals - in some scenes you can almost smell the tempting pheromones. It's strongly atmospheric piece this, with the set with its shiny, slippy surfaces, the cross-dressing and Welsh's tale all cracking and dissolving sexual and moral certainties. And it leaves one wanting to read the novel gave rise to the adaptation. © Thelma Good 22 October 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast of Citizen's Production of Play. Rilke and other characters - Tam Dean Burn, Rose and other characters - Ann Marie Timoney.
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