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The Match Box

Tricycle Theatre, Inner London
From: Thursday, 2nd May 2013
To: Saturday, 1 June 2013

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Synopsis

And she grew to be a girl, my daughter, my Mary. Sing a Song, Mary. Sing for Grandma and Granda. Sing. The ties that bind can never be broken. For Sal, they hang like a noose around her neck, just loose enough to keep a small but potent flame burning inside. A passionate story of one woman's journey through forgiveness, revenge and redemption.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 9 May 2013

Leanne Best showed up well in Frank McGuinness' over-insulted, if not exactly underrated, version of Damned by Despair at the National last year, and here she is again in an original text by McGuinness that fully displays the range of her talent and the density of her spiritual grace on the stage.

Best plays an Irish Liverpudlian single mother, Sal, who likes the sulphur smell of struck matches and uses them to ignite her solo story of losing a daughter, whom she conceived when a schoolgirl, hating her parents, losing them, and returning home to a small island off the coast of Kerry and dealing with grief.

If this uninterrupted solo performance of 105 minutes, first seen at the Liverpool Playhouse studio last year, weren't so well acted, or so well written, it might sound like a string of clichés prompted by thoughts of homeland and the sort of crass accidental cross-fire murder we read about in the papers all the time (in Liverpool or So...

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