GamePlan - Damsels in Distress Trilogy

Synopsis

What happens when the plan goes wrong and you start to lose control of the game where you don't know the rules...? When Lynette s business collapses and her husband disappears into the blue she finds herself a single parent with a rapidly dwindling lifestyle. The future looks bleak. But she reckons without teenage daughter Sorrel s last ditch attempts to save them both. Will she succeed? Or will her desperate "game plan" plunge them both into even greater trouble...?

Our Review:

9 September 2002

Note: The following review dates from June 2001 and this production's run at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.

Gameplan is Alan Ayckbourn's 58th play, followed by Flatspin and RolePlay.

While all three are presented under a Damsels In Distress umbrella, the plays are otherwise entirely separate entities. However, they do share the same cast of seven, Roger Glossop's clean, crisp and modern London Docklands' apartment set and, of course, a rather famous writer and director.

What would you do if your mother's business collapsed and your lifestyle was rapidly dwindling? If you were anything like teenage daughter Sorrel Saxon (Saskia Butler) the option is an easy one - you assume the name Randy Mandy, set up an internet site advertising your wares as prostitute, enlist your dizzy and naïve friend Kelly (Alison Pargeter) as a Madame and wait for the 'phone to ring. It is only when that first client turns...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (212.211.88.14) - 3 December 2002:

How can you give this 5 stars and Flatspin 2 ? This is the thought-provoking one of the three, with a superb pair of performances from the girls. To me the three plays are different but equally good and seeing all three in one day really does add a lot to the experience....

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