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Theatre listings > Snuff. - World Premiere. A Winner of 2005 The Arches Award for Stage Directors. Director and Writer - Davey Anderson. Designer/Video - Will Holt. LX/Sound Designer - Graham Sutherland. Photographer/Projections - Clementine Sandison. Cast - here . Venue - Arches Theatre, Argylle St, Glasgow. Dates - 5 - 7 April at 8:30 pm. Run Time - 1 hours 10 mins no Interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Tough and rivetting. Led into the bowels of the Arches we are taken on a journey, projections along the way of hi-rises and a youth playing solitary footy against a wall sideslips us until we end up looking at a young man in a miserable, half covered-up kitchen. We are being drawn into his reality. We're asked to take our seats so we look into his even more sparsely furnished living room. He puts a video on from his collection and settlles down to watch it. He's filming his sister Pamela, luminiously played by Siobhan Reilly, she seems haunted by an inner sadness and looks about fifteen. Then as he questions how she managed to get new clothes his behaviour becomes darker and she says she'll tell Billy. Kevin says he's not here. A knock on the door interrupts his watching. Billy, Steven Ritchie, breezes in. Kevin's Brian Ferguson, surprised, Billy got out into the Army and has been doing a tour in Iraq. The pair settle in to a sparring relationship, bonded by the Protestant past they were brought up with. Director and writer Davey Anderson gives his two actors a tight, edgy script with lots of levels of tension and surprise. Ritchie and Ferguson play it as the gift it is. The audience, voyeurs into the stump end of lives in decaying schemes are confronted not just with the grim twists of Kevin's mind but also what if he's on to something? Uneasily you try to surpress the thoughts what if the war isn't only out there but also in our own neighbour, what is the" war of terror" doing to us all? Anderson's Snuff serves up tough and rivetting theatre using the modern lighting, sound and visuals to underscore the ace performances. More please and soon. © Thelma Good 5 April 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast: Kevin - Brian Ferguson, Billy - Steven Ritchie, and (on video and stills only) Pamela - Siobhan Reilly. The other winner of 2005 The Arches Award for Stage Directors is Skye Lonergran whose production called A Little Laugh I lost Somewhere, review, is also on at the Arches 2005 Theatre Festival. 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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