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Theatre listings > Pyrenees. - Tour & World Premiere. Playwright - David Grieg. Director - Vicky Featherstone - This is her last production with Paines Plough as their Artistic Director. She has now been appointed as the first Director of the National Theatre of Scotland. Designer - Neil Warmington. Lighting Designer - Natasha Chivers. Original Music & Sound - Nick Powell. Company - Paines Plough (England) and Tron Theatre Company Glasow in assoc. with Watford Palace Theatre, England. Cast - here . Venue - Tron Theatre, Trongate Glasgow Website BO 0141 552 4267. Dates - Preview 10 March at 7.30pm.11 - 26 March Tues to Sat at 7.30pm. 2005 Tour Dates and Times - here . Run Time - 2 hours 10 mins including one interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Attain theatrical peaks.
In a nearly empty hotel a man who has lost his identity and a British Consular official try to work out who he is. He speaks a form of English. Anna a nervy young diplomat - not being an expert - isn't too sure where to place him geographically speaking. The Man hasn't the foggiest, he was found in the snow on the Pilgrims way in the Pyrenees. In sparse dialogue, on Neil Warmington's excellent louvered doored hotel balcony set, with Natasha Chiver's beautifully toned lighting and Nick Powell's original sounds, Vicky Featherstone directs Grieg's play which explores identity seen through relationships and nationalities. Hugh Ross's The Man has an attractive ironic facade, dryly observing how he, (whoever he is) dithers but chooses the English breakfast, his gradual shifting relationship to himself skilfully underplayed by Ross. The actors play the dynamic tensions of the play with the audience with them at every turn and twist as the twitchy brainy but socially awkward Anna, Frances Grey finds pleasure maybe part of this assignment, or when the only other guest a strong woman of the same age and possibly nationality, Vivienne played with well restrained modulation by Paola Dionisotti, appears to have something significant in her rucksack. Topping off the strong cast is Jonathan McGuinness's The Proprietor in whose veins and life experiences runs connections to diverse nationalities and parts of the globe. He excuses his behaviour traits to being amongst others Basque, African and even, at one point, a woman! In his confusions there's wry wit displayed in the difficulty of knowing who we are in a world which offers so much variety and experience. The tone, the atmosphere and the productive quality all attain theatrical peaks. Grieg's play is one of four new plays Paines Plough have commissioned to explore English as a language and how it shapes our identity, This Other England to celebrate their 30th anniversary as a new writing theatre. Another is If Destroyed True by fellow Scot Douglas Maxwell which is to be premiered at Dundee Rep next month and directed by John Tiffany who will be joining Vicky Featherstone, The Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Scotland as that theatre's Director of New Work. With Neil Murray the present director of the Tron, this production's co-producer, shortly becoming the NToS's Executive Producer and Greig himself recently appointed as NToS's dramaturg, Pyrenees is one of two chances we Scots have to check out the considerable talent the National Theatre has gathered together. © Thelma Good 11 March 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast: The Man - Hugh Ross, Vivienne - Paola Dionisotti, Anna - Frances Grey and The Proprietor - Jonathan McGuinness. 2005 Tour Details of Pyrenees . Tour begins Preview 10 March at 7.30pm. 11 - 26 March Tues to Sat at 7.30pm Glasgow Tron Theatre 0141 552 4267. 29 March - 24 April in London Menier Choclate Factory 020 7907 7060. 26 - 30 April in Watford Palace Theatre 01923 225 671. Tour ends. Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is thelma@edinburghguide.com Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information presented in these pages, no responsibility can be accepted for any errors or omissions. Theatre listings >
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