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To the Wall-
Scottish Premiere Part of the Six Stages Festival - A Celebration of Canadian
Theatre and Dance in Glasgow, Berlin and Prague
Performer, Writer and Director - Andy Jones
Venue - Tron Theatre Glasgow www.tron.co.uk
BO 0141 552 4267
In converted church in Trongate
Dates & Times - 30 Oct - 2 Nov at 9 pm
Run Time - 1 hours 30 mins without interval
Reviewer - Thelma Good
With a sexy roundness.
Think Julian Fox* with a sexy roundness but not his good sense of brevity.
Cut 20 minutes off To The Wall and those who like whimsical humour could
be well pleased. Andy Jones shows us round his Newfoundland background
and we encounter the N factor, Newfoundlanders do it differently.
It's a place with its own (style is too urban a word) way with life and
religion. There's a good deal of Catholicism in Andy's background and
he checks out that we too can detect when the priest's gone mad. But Andy
has come to give us more than that. We get the full equation for how the
world is the way it is, like Andy God too made a mistake. Explained with
rambling digressions into the wedding traditions of the island, his aunt's
pre-war encounters and Stephen Hawking dropping in to give his support,
it often bowls along. The wardrobe (not closet) only used at the end disappoints,
for we had all the show to imagine what it might contain, when open it
was the least inventive part of the show.
Andy's a fine performer warming up a sparse audience on his first night
into a laughing joining-in gang. His charm helps you to stay with him
despite the material's needing a trim back from its over long length.
And his Glaswegian no half bad for a Canadian, here for the first time.
So Andy ditch the wardrobe and give us a little less, your show will delight
more.
© Thelma Good 31 October 2002. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
*Julian Fox is a Former RSC stage door man still working at the Barbican,
he started with a 15 minute show, The Slackers Opera at Edinburgh Fringe
2000, his show Goodbye Seattle Coffee Company this festival lasted 45
mins.
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