| Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco by Gary Owen |
| First presented in 2001 by Sgript Cymru |
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synopsis: Saturday night, small town Wales, only one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations ? the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream ? to get the hell out. With a dead cat stuffed through a letterbox, a soupcon of mindless violence and a perfect woman to die for, Crazy Gary?s Mobile Disco is bursting at the seams with the desperately ordinary, the truly extraordinary, and the just plain mad. Hysterical, tragic and right up your street, in 90 minutes of fast action, only one of our lads will score. Director Vicky Featherstone?s reputation for excellence coupled with Bridgend Born Gary Owen?s dazzling gift for storytelling promises to be another unmissable hit for this first ever co-production between Paines Plough and Sgript Cymru, the national new writing company of Wales. Commissioned by Paines Plough. Co-produced by Sgript Cymru and Paines Plough. Directed by Vicky Featherstone. |
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Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco
by Gary Owen
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venue Chapter Arts Centre, cardiff |
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February 13, 2001 |
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| SGRIPT Cymru, in a co-production with London-based theatre company Paines Plough, presents an affecting if bleakly comical view of the male psyche in its latest offering. Gary Owen’s first stage play takes the form of three monologues and combines stand-up comedy with storytelling. David Rees Talbot, Steve Meo and Richard Mylan play the parts of three young men who can’t leave town and find themselves unable to develop beyond their schoolyard roles, re-enacting scenes of increasing violence in a pub, a party and on the streets. Owen takes us into the minds of the bully, the victim and the prevaricator in a small-town world of drugs, drink, karaoke and a shared quest for the perfect girl. It is not completely obvious that their stories are interlinked and even collide, but a drama unfolds, if only in our minds. There is work to be done on further differentiating the three characters, for the playwright’s voice seems to dominate throughout, a clever wordiness that doesn’t allow the characters freedom to “escape” and perhaps doesn’t give the audience enough reason to believe. But there are wonderful moments: David Rees Talbot as the thug unable to control his anger who crumbles before the “perfect girl”; Steve Meo as sentimental karaoke singer Mathew D Melody and Richard Mylan as troubled dreamer turned reluctant catalyst. It’s a show not to be missed. |
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| reviewer: Western Mail |
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