Ancient Lights
From: Wednesday, 29th November 2000
To: Saturday, 20 January 2001
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Synopsis
When American movie star Tom Cavallero comes to England to spend Christmas with old friends Bea and Kitty, he craves peace and anonymity. But Tom himself is not the Hollywood hunk he pretends to be - and the holiday reveals the self deception at the heart of all their very modern lives.
Our Review:
8 December 2000
Back at the theatre where she made her breakthrough with The Memory of Water, Shelagh Stephenson's new work displays skill and wit without succeeding as a persuasive work.
Major movie star Tom Caballero (Don McManus) is flying to England for a Christmas reunion with the two women he calls his best friends. In tow is Iona (Ruth Gemmell), whose video camera – she's making a documentary of Tom s “real” life – seems stitched to her arm. In snowy Northumberland, meanwhile, Bea (Joanne Pearce) is worrying herself silly about Tom's arrival, and gaining no help from the lugubrious Thaddeus (an excellent Dermot Crowley), her Irish novelist boyfriend. Bea's daughter Joni (Sheridan Smith) dreams of escaping Blighty for Beverly Hills. And Kitty (Gwyneth Strong), Tom's other best pal, arrives in tears, ready to hang her guilty conscience about the wealth of the West, and her infidelity, around everyone's neck.
Stephenson slowly builds humour through her ...
Creative
Shelagh Stephenson (Author)
Ian Brown (Director)
Tanya McCallin (Design)
David Hersey (Lighting)
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