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Flesh'n'Steel
- Tour & World Premiere.
An Arches New Work Commission
Writers/Directors - Garry Robson and Mike Kenny.
Installation Artist - Michael Mayhew.
Company - Fittings Multimedia Arts.
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at The Arches Glasgow.
Run Time - 1 hours 30 mins no Interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Loose splicing continually unravels.
Long John Silver is a character who Robert Louis Stevenson created but
who has long escaped the novel Treasure Island to become The Pirate. In
Flesh'n'Steel we encounter Long John and his two women, Tabitha his partner
and Mary her mum. Andrew McLay as Long John makes a dashing pirate,
using his wheelchair with speed, Ayo Jones as Tabitha is mysterious
and strong while as Mary, Siobhan Rocks signs with dramatic and
desciptive flair even hearing people could follow.
It's a set where material sails are suspended using weights and ropes,
billowed and filled with wind supplied by fans, sometimes video is projected
on them but not to any effect. While the rearranging of the sails could
open up the peice but ends up being empty of point. At the beginning the
cast place on their clothes pieces of mainly clothed bodies. Not always
the pieces you would expect - an eye ball where you expect a knee or a
skinned limb.
If this had been a new work just on for a couple of nights in one venue,
a work in development I would have come away interested to see the ideas
of what happens to fictious creatures after first publication, it is rich
with potential. But this production is touring for a month and yet it
hasn't got a clear direction to the interesting themes it raises, despite
fine cast work particularily from Jones. Disappointing too after seeing
this creative partnership's The
Irish Giant produced by Birds Of Paradise earlier this autumn.
If you look carefully you'll learn the deaf sign for twat taking us back
to the word's origins and few other silent swear words. But the loose
splicing of the three character's tales mean that the whole piece continually
unravels so the any booty the play could have escapes.
© Thelma Good 4 November 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast: Silver - Andrew McLay, Tabatha - Ayo Jones
and Mary - Siobhan Rocks.
2003 Tour Details of Fittings Multimedia's
production of Flesh'n'Steel.
Tour begins
30 Oct at 7.30pm London Chats Palace Arts Centre 020 853 30227.
1 Nov at 7.45pm Northwich Harlequin Theatre 01606 41597.
2 Nov at 7.30pm Croydon Clock Tower 020 82531030.
4-5 Nov at 7.30pm Glasgow The Arches 0141 565 1023.
8 Nov at 7pm Edinburgh North Edinburgh Arts Centre 0131 3152151.
11 Nov at 8pm Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre 0115 8467777.
15 Nov at 7.30pm Abergavenny Melville Theatre 01873 850805.
19 Nov at 8pm Hemel Hempstead The Old Town Hall 01442 228091.
21 Nov at 8pm Liverpool The Unity Theatre 0151 7094988.
22 Nov at 8pm Liverpool The Valley Theatre 0151 488 0364.
26 Nov at 8pm St Albans Sandpit Theatre 01727 370067.
27- 28 Nov at 8pm London N6 5AA Jacksons Lane 020 83414421.
Tour ends.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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