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Through The Night
- World Premiere.
Second part of The Corbicula Circle, the first being On The Edge,( EdinbughGuide
review).
Written and Performed by David Leddy www.davidleddy.com
Director - Kat Nelson.
Costume Designer - Lisa Cochrane.
Production Details - This is part of David Leddy's Doctorate which
is being perused at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.
Venue -The Arches www.thearches.co.uk
253 Argyll St Glasgow 0141 565 1023
Dates - 20 - 22 May at 7.30pm.
Run Time - I hours no Interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Entertaining Meander sometimes self indulgent.
He asks us to lend him our souls for a while, dressed in a post-smoking
cherry-red padded silk jacket, David Leddy is audience friendly so we
do. After about an hour our souls are released back, Through the Night
is a gentle meander round love, a girl who's never been kissed and those
songs you sing as you hug your loneliness, acomplished with wigs.
It's part theatre, part performance art and it doesn't slip between the
two quite as smoothly as it might. There are stories, centering around
Stella and her gradual drift closer to the life of glamour, and Leddy
has you seeing Aretha Franklin in her fish tail dress, the delicious South
African Charmain, Bjork with her strange accent mixes, not to mention
the boring intellectual man. What breaks it up, in the performance art
way of never allowing you to grasp what's going on so some of us give
up in exasperation, are the ritualised guesture sequences which Leddy
punctuates the narratives with. Both this, and the movement of props round
the set begin to feel like padding and extraneous. Better intergation
with the stories would have pulled the guestures in and silence the suspicion
that the performance is being extended unnecessiarly.
Through The Night is the second piece in this trilogy of solo plays and
is part of Leddy's PhD work. The first On The Edge was an entertaining
look at Hollywood's fascination with psychotic homosexuals. This second
part lets us spend time with a charming performer, but at points it feels
uncommunicatively self indulgent rather than a fully developed piece of
work.
© Thelma Good 20 May 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Review of On The Edge, ( EdinbughGuide review).The
first part of The Corbicula Circle.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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