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Theatre listings > Gagarin Way First seen prior to the downing of the twin towers, Gregory Burke's Gagarin Way, here on a national (i.e. Scottish) tour before it goes to Norway and Sweden, has at least all of the impact of the original production, even with some changes. Set in the fair kingdom of Fife, it contains within it four male characters who might all be going nowhere in this world of multinationals and global marketing. Paul Thomas Hickey's Eddie isn't quite as mentally sharp as the original actor in this role Nardone's Eddie but as a result Hickey's Eddie's cod philosophic musings, culminating in his unemotional actions are all the more disturbing. Eddie's waiting for Garry, his socialist co-worker. Waiting with him is the graduate security guard Tom, Michael Moreland. Tom is being obliging letting some boxes go out the back while he's on night shift. Tom's the kind of stupid graduate we're all too familiar with, qualified for f*** all and ignorant of the world. Eddie's certainly streetwise, Garry, Billy McElhaney, his partner
is politically so far left he's well off the New Labour radar, like Eddie
he thinks he wants a real challenge. Frank is played by John Stahl,
the businessman who falls into their plan, but he's not the wrong kind,
not a foreigner, not even a toff. F*** he even speaks like them when he
finally comes round. McElhaney and Moreland have been with
this production since it premiered to much critically acclaim at the Edinburgh
Fringe in 2001, John Stahl joined it when the production moved
into the West End after its Royal National theatre run and Hickey
has joined the cast to replace Michael Nardone who was the original
Eddie. Theatre listings >>
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