Rooms - A Rock Romance

Synopsis

She longs to see every room in the world... He longs to stay in his... Rooms - A Rock Romance begins in late 1970's Glasgow at the very height of punk rock, where Monica, an ambitious Jewish singer-songwriter meets Ian, a reclusive rocker. As the pair become quickly entangled - both creatively and romantically - their music together hurtles them from the dingy clubs of Scotland to the glitz of London and ultimately to New York City... Featuring an astonishing score by award-winning Scottish composer Paul Scott Goodman and performed by a live rock band, ROOMS - A Rock Romance is both a thrilling musical journey and a poignant unconventional love story about two young artists, whose love for each other deepens whilst their desires tear them apart.

Our Review:

26 April 2013

The Finborough Theatre provides a fittingly intimate space for the European Premiere of ROOMS – A Rock Romance, a tale of unlikely romance between two Glasgow musicians in the 1970s. The show is a two-hander with a simple story that doesn’t need glitz and glamour in its staging, and therefore probably becomes more powerful by being seen in a smaller venue.

The plot is pretty clichéd, featuring as it does a mismatched couple, a heady 15 minutes of fame, alcoholism, an unplanned pregnancy, a break-up and a reunion. In fact, the formulaic storyline may be just right for a rock musical, fitting comfortably within the rock n roll ethos and traditional subject matter of the three-minute hit. It’s perhaps best not to overanalyse and just to enjoy the show as a series of (actually rather good) rock songs.

Cassidy Janson, as the ambitious Jewish rock-star-in-waiting Monica P. Miller and Alexis Gerred, as the borderline hermit guitarist Ian Wall...

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