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Into The Fade
- Tour & World Premiere.
Playwright - Tim Primrose.
Director - Dale Corlett.
Assistant Director - Suzanne Adamson
Designer - Clare Scott.
Costume Designer -Angela Moffat.
Lighting Designer - Chris Cooper.
Original Music - Simon Heath.
Video Director - Dale Corlett.
Company - secondUnit
A venture based in Bathgate and West Lothian Youth Theatre's New Initiative
for 16-25 years olds will training courses and opportunities in film and
new media.
Cast - here .
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Traverse Theatre 24 October.
Run Time - 1 hours 30 mins no Interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
secondUnit's actors are not second rate.
Making teenage depression and angst real, entertaining and theatrical
all comes together in West Lothian Youth Theatre's secondUNIT's production
of Tim Primrose's Into The Fade. Eddie has retreated to his room and gone
into the world of the private detective in black and white films. A girl
Faith visits him, steeping through his window, dressed like a movie star
and in his cupboard there's a monster howling and barking. Primrose plays
with the story so it hovers between reality and surreality and director
Dale Corbett with the production team make sure that ambivalence succeeds.
Eddie lives with his mother and the succession of her one-night-stands
passing through. She's not holding things together too well despite popping
prescribed pills. We also meet his classmates, best friend and the bullies,
and some very eccentric but highly recognizable teachers. "It's easier
to live in a world you've made up" Eddie remarks but when Faith doesn't
turn up he turns towards reality and notices the class's new girl.
Michael Berry's Eddie is a boy trying not to lost his way as he grows
into a man. Laura Stephen's Mum drawing her life out in increasing pills
lets us see how young actors can vividly act more than their age. Indeed
all the young cast fill out their characters well, in this, their first
production, secondUnit's actors are not second rate, taking on with gusto
this tricky and challenging piece. The multimedia production with its
flexible set makes good use of the well shot and directed video sequences,
and despite many disparate scenes holds together.
Tim Primrose knows the teenage age group well, writing plausible characters.
In Into the Fade and A Chance in Hell he is starting to explore the adult
world. This young writer looks ready to tackle his first script for professional
actors of all ages. He certainly provides scripts fine youth theatres
can really develop their members with.
© Thelma Good 24 October 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Reviews of other Tim Primrose plays, Porcelain
Dolls, This,Here,Now,
Big Country,
and the musical A
Chance in Hell.
Into The Fade Cast: Ed - Michael Berry, Mum
- Laura Stephen, Amy - Kerri Aniello, Faith - Josalin Lynch, Susy - Natalie
Bailey Foster, Eva - Lauren Osinski, Crowley - Kris Watson, Pi - Callum
Stewart, Siddcup - Byran Beattie, Alf - Ryan Sweeney, Gordo - Francesco
Spina and Greg - Adam Whyte.
2003 Tour Details of secondUNIT's production
of Into The Fade.
Tour begins
14/15 Oct at 8pm Livingston Howden Park Centre 01506 433 634.
21 Oct at 8pm Stirling macRobert 01786 466 666.
23 - 25 Oct at 8pm Edinburgh Traverse Theatre 0131 228 1404.
1 Nov at 7:45pm Cumbernauld Theatre 01236 732 887.
8 Nov at 8pm Aberdeen The Lemon Tree as part of the N.A.S.T.Y seminar.
Tour ends
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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