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Theatre listings > Wired. - World Premiere. Part of A Play, A Pie and A Pint 2005 Autumn season at lunchtime at Òran Mòr. Playwright - Davey Anderson. Director - Caroline Paterson. Designer - Annette Gillies. Design Assistant - Lauren Brown. Producer - David Maclennan. Company - A Play, A Pie & A Pint - Sponsored By Orange. Cast - here . Venue - Òran Mòr, 731 - 735 Great Western Road nr Glasgow's Botanics at junction with Byres Rd. Tickets at door or bookable beforehand at 08700 132 652 or www.secc.co.uk Dates - 21 - 26 November 2005. Run Time - Doors open at 12.30pm, show runs from 1:10pm. Performance lasts around 40 minutes. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Unsettles but packs too much. The setting is a modern, white hotel room but this production invades the audience space. On either side of the stage suited young men listen to their earpieces, walk in a measured pace up and down. They maybe undercover policemen but the menace they contain erodes any trust. Katie, Louise Ludgate, tells us she was there, she's going to tell us what she saw, asks us to believe her. The flat screened TV contains black and white images of 7/7, the day the four bombs went off in London this year, sometimes there is sound too, fragments of the rolling news and reaction that day and after. With the two silent suited men they add to the tension. David, Paul Hickey, disturbs Katie while she's started clean his hotel room, scissors in hand she's actually trying to clean herself by self-harming. Katie's story doesn't quite hold together. Is her encounter with David accidental, have both or one of them engineered it? What did she see in the tube when a man was shot in front of her eyes? Why is she carrying a rucksack when everyone else at that time was looking for less fear-laden luggage. David doesn't give away much, but does he really see her as just a diversion, the audience is left wondering. His role David says "is to establish the facts and construct a narrative to fit them." That's what the audience try to do too with Davey Anderson's Wired but there are are a lot of leads running into this play. Anderson ultimately packs rather too much into forty minutes for it to work successfully, given a longer time it could develop more fruitfully. The play also stumbles over trying to tie itself to the recent historical facts - a more experienced writer might have left the audience to draw its own parallels. The direction by Caroline Paterson and the performances by Ludgate, Hickey and the two silent men have one unsettled about our security none the less. © Thelma Good 21 November 2005 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast: Katie - Louise Ludgate, David - Paul Hickey with Stuart Davids and Neil Leiper. 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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