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Zero Degrees {and Drifting}.
- Tour & World Premiere.
Writers - Clare Duffy, Liz Margree, Jon Spooner and Chris Thorpe.
Director - Jon Spooner.
Designer - David Farley.
Lighting Designer - Guy Hoare.
Sound Designer - Gareth Fry.
Artistic Associate - Chris Goode.
Assistant Director - Oliver Emanuel.
Assistant Designer - Louise Emmot.
Company - Unlimited Theatre
& Sheffield Theatres with additional support from The Corn Exchange,
Newbury England.
Cast - here .
Venue Seen - Traverse Theatre
Edinburgh 0131 228 1404..
Dates - 10 - 13 Nov at 7:30pm.
2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Traversre Theatre Edinburgh on 10 November 2004.
Run Time - 1 hours 30 mins no Interval .
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Haunting.
It haunts this one. Four people wrote the text, more were involved in
the development of the production and five actors, one non-speaking, are
on stage. Zero Degrees containing theatrical meditation and a narrative
story comes alive and more.
Traverse Two's stage is filled with clutter when the play starts. At one
side towards the back an off-shore DJ, Chris Thorpe, spins the
occasional disc.Throughout at times he reads out descriptions of missing
people vanished all over the world, it's ship based radio station's Outlook
AM's reason for being. Some from our local streets, others from war zones
or far destinations not arrived at, the uncertainity of lives is not only
underlined here, where True Love and Optimism are included in the lost,
the fleeting sightings are present in all of Zero Degrees' characters.
Marianne Blackley, Sarah Belcher, and Alan Valentine, Nathan
Rimell, are a couple, he goes off to sea for months and this is their
6th year together living in a lighthouse. They frequently speak in the
third person, more often than we see them converse. Further along the
coast Bea Saunders, Elizabeth Besbrode, the only curator of the
disintegrating Museum of Everything That Matters records updates as the
Gallery of Memories, the collection of all sorts of precipitation and
the Great Hall of Expectations, to name just a few, audibly crumble and
fall off the eroding cliff face.
One day, in a wordfree marvellous performance by Theron U. Schmidt,
a nearly naked man is washed up by the sea, Mairianne finds him and
takes him home. Though he never speaks he affects deeply the three he
meets. His essence for us and them flickers between stranger, Christ,
a lost or discovering love or child or a miracle angel in our midst.
In Zero Degrees each character is enigmatic, the pace and text
of the piece dreamlike - it's very effective.
© Thelma Good 10 November 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast: Marianne Blackley - Sarah Belcher, Alan
Valentine - Nathan Rimell, Bea Saunders - Elizabeth Besbrode, D.J. - Chris
Thorpe and Stranger - Theron U. Schmidt.
2004 Tour Details of Unlimited Theatre's production
of Zero Degrees .
Tour begins
15 & 16 Oct at 7:45pm Newbury The Corn Exchange 01635 522733.
19 - 23 Oct at 7:45pm Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse 0113 213 7700.
26 & 27 Oct at 8pm Manchester Contact Theatre 0161 274 0600.
2 & 3 Nov at 7:45pm Coventry Warwick Arts Centre 024 7652 4524.
4 - 6 Nov at 8pm Bath Theatre Royal 01225 448844.
10 - 13 Nov at 7:30pm Edinburgh Traverse Theatre 0131 228 1404.
17 - 20 Nov at 7:45pm Sheffield, Crucible 0114 249 6000.
Tour ends
Theatre Editor, Thelma
Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com
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