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Theatre listings > Good Reason. - Tour & World Premiere. Playwright - Elspeth Murray and Tim Nunn includes Mosaic by Anthony Minghella. Director - Katherine Morley. Movement Director - Rosina Bonsu Designer - Tim Nunn. Lighting Designer - Karen Bryce. Company - Reeling & Writhing Company Website. Cast - here . 2006 Tour Dates and Times - here . Seen to review at Peebles Eastgate Arts 19 April 2006. Run Time - 1hours 20 mins no Interval. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Achieves considerable tension and pain but... Mothers and daughters, the ties that bind and cut, the love that hurts and sometimes heals. Reeling and Writhing were inspired by Anthony Minghella's poem Mosaic to make Good Reason. The result contains powerful moments, though bookending it with the text of the inspiring poem both gives it a shaky start and arrests its striking climax. Elspeth Murray and Tim Nunn have created a text which particularily gives intensity for the daughter Annie played with inner angish by Gillian Lees. Linda Duncan McLaughlin has the harder task as Liz the mother who with her years of repression, ritual use of post-it notes and not so clearly concieved voice. Not that either Liz or Annie are the women you'd most want to meet, both of them maybe got the men they deserved. Betrayed they both are, by the past, by the present and crucially by their unseen men. On a set where their kitchens and living rooms are suggested, there are sometimes portrayed a succession of doors for no discernible reason. Annie is her Dad's Little Angel and this is a family some of whose tensions many share. One where there are things unspoken whose ripples mould and change large continents of their worlds. At times Good Reason achieves considerable tension and pain but at others it tips towards a unhelpful blandness or too frequent use of monologues. If you're in a relationship or about to see your mother or daughter this play may make you pause and reflect. It's just a shame the creators felt the necessity to insert the poem Mosaic twice. Sometimes inspirations are best left behind to let the new creation really fly. © Thelma Good 19 April 2006 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast - Annie - Gillian Lees and Liz - Linda Duncan McLaughlin. 2006 Tour Details of Reeling & Writhing's production of Good Reason . Tour begins 14 April at 8pm Birnam Institute, Dunkeld 01350 727674. 19 April, 7.30pm at Peebles Eastgate Arts 01721 725777. 21 April at 8pm Livingston Howden Park 01506 433634. 25 - 29 April at 7.30pm Glasgow Tron Theatre 0141 552 4267. 2 May at 8pm Lyth Arts Centre 01955 641270. 3 May at 7.30pm Helmsdale Timespan Gallery 01408 635211. 4 May at 8pm Plockton Village Hall 01599 555208. 5 May at 8pm Kingussie Talla nan Ros www.thebooth.co.uk 6 May at 8pm Oban Corran Halls 01631 567333. 11 May at 7:30pm Banchory Woodend Barn 01330 825431. 12 May at 7.30pm Tullynessle & Forbes Village Hall Tkts Nicol's Outdoor Gear, Alford 01975 562963. 17 - 20 May at 7:30pm Edinburgh Traverse Theatre 0131 228 1404. 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. |
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