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Shiver
- A work in Development - Developed with support of Arches An SAC Seed
funded work..
Playwrights - Kate Brailsford and Gillian Kerr.
Director - Stewart Cairns.
Designer - Elaine Johnstone.
Lighting and Sound Designer - Colin Bell.
Composers - Nathan Hoyle and Stewart Cairns.
Company - Rough Ruby Productions.
Cast - here .
Venue - Arches Theatre.
Company - The Arches Theatre Company .
Cast - here .
Venue -The Arches www.thearches.co.uk
253 Argyll St Glasgow 0141 565 1023
Dates - 25 - 27 Feb at 8:45pm
Run Time - I hours no Interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Playful but it doesn't fudge.
Rough Ruby's first public outing, a work in development isn't rough in
any way as well as being a sparkling gem. Shiver takes two sisters Hannah
and Greta and the modern world with its awful complications to make a
contempoary folk tale. Simply staged with the two actors Kate Brailsford
and Gillian Kerr playing neighbours, mortage advisors, a police man and
a local ned as well as the sisters.
Hannah and Greta are two thirty somethings who haven't left the nest,
Greta hasn't made it over her father's doorstep in a long while, Hannah
seem more together but hasn't a steady job. When their mother dies and
the stepmother gets tough they have to find somewhere else to live.
It's all told in a light and playful style set from the first but it doesn't
fudge that finding your way through the wild woods to independence is
fraught with obstacles and fears. It's even political as the two try to
set up home in Grimmstoun and switch on their TV to watch decorating and
house improvement shows.
It's well worth seeing and I hope Rough Ruby continue to mine this refreshing
approach to making theatre. Shiver has fun as it gets us to see into ordindary
peoples' lives and how folktales are still being lived today. Rough Ruby
have let us see their first seed as it just growing, it has all the signs
of an artistic team who will flourish.
© Thelma Good 25 February 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast: Hanah - Kate Brailsford and Greta - Gillian
Kerr.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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