Glimpse
- tour
Director - Matthew Lenton + Alistair Rolls
Text - Matthew Lenton + Vanishing Point
Company -Vanishing Point
www.vanishing-point.org
Venues - 26 Jan - 17 Feb 2001 Tour in Scotland and England
Reviewer Thelma Good
Glimpse is a devised play based on the strange stories and experiences
of people with dementia. It is woven through, round and in the past
of one sufferer, an eminent archeologist Lucy, who has forgotten what
she discovered. Kay Gallie plays Lucy who has a gentle, bemused,
slackening grasp on her increasingly fragmented past and present. Hers
is the character which works the best. We hear her wonderful comments
and laugh with her at the strange way the world is. You get a real sense
of what it is like to "disappear from yourself". I thought
the actor and the character were beautifully judged.
It
was the rest of the play which was, I felt, not fully developed. In
particular the scenes which may or may not - the past is like that -
have given rise to Lucy's greatest discovery, a woman preserved in the
peat. Set in a time long before increasing scattyness is diagnosed as
dementia, an old woman is seen as a danger to her community and led
away by her son. This company are capable of fascinating work, this
one may become so in time but at the moment not enough of the story
can be glimpsed. However Kay Gallie's performance stays in the memory.
© Thelma Good 26 January 2001
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