Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Worthy cause derailed by lack of dramatic momentum
A tick-box approach to real concerns and nodding to the crowd disappoint, writes MARY CONWAY
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Fair Play
Bush Theatre
FAIR Play, the new work by Ella Road famed for her success with The Phlebotomist, takes us into a very current, but rarely explored, world of top-class athletics. Two young women, Ann and Sophie, meet in training, bond and spur each other on, only to see their burgeoning prowess – and with it their relationship – sabotaged by the unfairness of life and factors beyond their control.
It exposes the important role of luck as well as graft in competitive activity.
The play is performed in the round; the stage is adorned with fitness apparatus; the floor is a running track, and much of the early part of the action involves the two characters in brief demonstrations of fitness training and the act of running.
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