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Theatre listings > Sea Change. - World Premiere. Part of A Play, A Pie and A Pint 2006 Autummn season at lunchtime at Òran Mòr in Glasgow and The Jam House in Edinburgh. Playwright - Lewis Hetherington. Director - Maggie Kinloch. Designer - Lauren Brown. Design Assistant - Rosie McGurn. Producer - David Maclennan. Company - A Play, A Pie & A Pint - Sponsored By Orange. Cast - here . Venues - In Glasgow - Òran Mòr, 731 - 735 Great Western Road nr Glasgow's Botanics at junction with Byres Rd. Tickets at door or bookable beforehand at 08700 600 100 or www.ticketweb.co.uk. In Edinburgh - The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, EH2 1JE. Ticket at the door or www.thejamhouse.com. Dates - 11- 16 Sept 2006 in Glasgow, 18 - 23 Sept 2006 in Edinburgh. Run Time - Doors open at 12.30pm, show runs from 1:10pm. Performance lasts around 40 minutes. Reviewer - Thelma Good. Powerful new play. In forty minutes new playwright Lewis Hetherington takes us forward into an awful future where the sea is rising and three siblings find themselves having to cope with a changing world. Andrew and Michael are bothers, their parents like them were fishers lost at sea and sister Sophie's partner John has recently been killed. As Hetherington moves the story on he skilfully lets us gather little details to convey the bleak times they are surviving in, perched on the top of a cliff in a government house. While Sophie helps Michael take up their duties in The Killing Times, Andrew is drawn, in loud vivid dreams, back to the sea the government has now forbidden all to go out on, his troubled, confused anguished state played with conviction by John Kazek. The Sea in Molly Innes' hands becomes a huge unending power, with lines lyrically describing how she has been changed by man. Innes also plays Sophie giving her the disquieting internal integrity of a female determined to survive while Tom Webster-Stewart as the youngest sibling Michael lets us see a boy turning in front of our eyes into a man who will be damaged. Maggie Kinloch's direction enables the power and unsettling events of this future play to challenge us and ensures the tricky to bring off character of The Sea haunts besides the other strong performances. Next week there will be a musical by Dave Anderson to nourish one in a lunchtime but this week take yourself along to The Jam House and sample this play from a striking new playwright who can really create a different world on stage. © Thelma Good 18 September 2006 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com Cast - Michael - Jim Webster-Stewart, Sophie/The Sea - Molly Innes and Andrew - John Kazek. 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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