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Intermission : a tale
of loss and regret. - World Premiere.
Part of Arches Live! and an Arches New Work Commission.
Devised and performed by - Julie Brown and Johnny McKnight. With
announcements by Chris Young.
Designer - David Sneddon.
Lighting Designer - Mark Ritchie.
Music - Marton Docherty.
Choreographer - Chris Wilson.
Company - Random Accomplice.
Venue -The Arches ww w.thearches.co.uk
253 Argyll St Glasgow 0141 565 1023
Dates - 13 - 15 September at 8.30pmish you can see it
with UBU as they helod the performance.
Run Time - 45 mins with no Interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Unsettling limbo.
Entering the Arches studio the corridor is like an old theatre's with
red flock walls and framed ancient billboards. On the stage is a squint
ornate gilded frame set at the back with slightly holey blue velvet curtains.
The stage slopes not only from front to back but also from side to side,
old fashioned brass shell footlights run along its front edge. Behind
you glimpse two doors with silver stars on them, Johnny is written on
one, Julie on the other.
Julie believes in Dr Theatre, that the show must go on, Johnny is tired.
And good though parts of this show is, the hints that it draws on the
performers own lives is unsettling. They are both appealing actors, and
when the play hints at troubles with in the two characters relationship
there's an almost inevitable assumption the audience will make - that
this is a public dirty linen washing. It's not a way to make audience
comfortable with a peice indeed it's almost always a mistake, no I'll
repharse that, it's always a mistake when devising to call your characters
by the actors' real names - it leaves the audience in an unsettling limbo.
But it does have some highly entertaining moments as this theatrical couple
take us through how they got on stage, and the routines they do. There's
a couple of dance ones to delight and Julie's blue leotard and rainbow
leg warmers are a sight to behold. There's a suggestion that they're also
several of those who've found the theatre too strong to resist over the
centuries, but it's not strongly enough developed for the audience to
relate to.
It's a new work which hasn't quite got out of the development process
yet, but the delivery and performance please none the less.
© Thelma Good 13 September 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
EdinburghGuide Review of Random Accomplice's earlier piece - Nothing
To Fear Anymore.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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