| A little gem of a play |
| 20 minutes of compressed intensity |
At RWCMD |
| Welsh College of Music and Drama- Hang Up , Venue 13, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2001 , August 18, 2001 |
| Only twenty minutes long, this piece is a little gem: Minghella manages to squeeze more into those minutes than many a writer fails to achieve in an hour. The situation is simple: a man and his wife are speaking on the phone. He is at home, she is in a hotel, away on business. Gradually he realises that someone else is in the room with her. The staging is equally simple: the husband is at one side of the stage, the wife at the other. We see both, but not the details of the rooms, nor the man who is with the wife, so our attention is focused on the two people. The husband is played by Alex Parry and the wife by Laura Pennycard, both about to start their third year at WCMD - although you wouldn't think it, for their performances are thoroughly professional. The production is well paced and the emotional development subtly portrayed. Excellent! This review is reproduced courtesy of the British Theatre web site |
Reviewed by: Peter Lathan (British Theatre web site) |
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