Paper Fortunes
From: Monday, 22nd August 2011
To: Saturday, 3 September 2011
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Synopsis
Takes a glimpse inside a family at war , looking at what happens when the talking stops, but no-one quite knows why. 'This is a piece that reveals some surprising and uncomfortable truths about human nature...'
Our Review:
26 August 2011
A play about a family’s summer holiday - what could be more appropriate in August? Add to this the location - a canalside pub theatre in leafy Little Venice - and this sounds like a tempting evening.
Roz Wyllie’s new play Paper Fortunes charts the week-long holiday of father Bill (Drew McKenzie), mother Mandy (Claire Porter), teenage daughter Chloe (Amy Newton) and her object of desire Bex (Lily Philips) in a villa on the island of Gozo. For the parents it’s a trip down memory lane. For Chloe it’s a perfect opportunity to try to “remove Bex’s g-string” while for Bex it seems principally to be an opportunity to quote Proust to anyone who’ll listen.
It’s a promising start. Mandy finds that returning to the scenes of her youth is more torment than pleasure and grumbles to Bill about the lack of excitement in their marriage. Being an ‘anything for a quiet life’ sort of guy his answer is to take he...
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Roz Wyllie (Author)
Rogue Writers (Producer)
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