Fog

Synopsis

Fog is about two families: one white and dysfunctional, the other black and aspiring. Fog and Lou were put into care as young children by their soldier father, Cannon, following the untimely death of their mother. Ten years later, Cannon returns, expecting to reassemble his family around him. But he feels a stranger in this ?new England of broken promises. And nothing could prepare him for the damage that abandonment and an inadequate care system has wreaked on his kids. He desperately tries to repair what has been broken, but is it all too little too late?

Our Review:

10 January 2012

“Can we have a plasma? I think you have to have ‘em in England nowadays. I think it’s the law”.

Opening in a dirty, granite-walled room, the dilapidated foundations of this top-floor flat resemble the bare bones of Fog’s reconstituted family. Abandoned whilst young as a result of their mother’s untimely death, Fog and his sister Lou were placed into care, left to fend for themselves in a system that forgot they existed.

After 10 years struggling to survive, Fog sees his dad Cannon return hoping to pick up the pieces of his family with visions of the happy household that he left behind. With Lou missing, and Fog scarred by his dysfunctional upbringing, this play tells a tale of young adults navigating their way through the urban metropolis of broken dreams, and withal attempting to gain a semblance of control over events that can quickly - and heartbreakingly - spiral into chaos.

The writers of Fog - RADA graduate [To...

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Latest User Review

Richard Voyce - 17 January 2012:

Five Stars? Really? 'Fog' is the sort of play that makes you long for french windows and tennis racquets, detailing, as it does, the dysfunctional lives of not very pleasant people. Every cliche in the book is wheeled out and thrown into the mix. Oh, and it's very sweary, but not in a particularly clever way. Bit like taking a late night trip on the number 18 bus through Harlesden. (And I speak as someone who lives in Harlesden...) Nice to get back to the Finborough, and the layout of the theatre was good to see. However, three stars I fear....

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