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Could It Be Forever?

Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
From: Wednesday, 4th August 2010
To: Sunday, 29 August 2010

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

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Synopsis

Can reliving a moment in our teens make us see what's important now? Three men, three women - all one time school friends, meet after many years. It’s great to catch up, people don’t really change... But when they fall into the memory of a particular week in 1973, a week when David Cassidy was in town... they ignite long hidden desires, fears and the pain of fractured friendship. A joyous, poignant trip that asks 'Did we get where we wanted to go? Have we stayed on the highway? And can we still remember the lyrics?'

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

Terri Paddock - 20 August 2010

Here’s an unassuming little festival treat: a straightforward, well-made ensemble play for adults (and by that, I don’t mean smutty, but simply grown-up).

If there’s a gimmick per se, it comes in the form of David Cassidy – now retro chic again after various celebrities have outed themselves as former fans. But Cassidy is merely a catalyst to return the group of now middle-aged friends to a more innocent time, the week in 1973 when he visited London for a concert at Wembley, and turned their 15-year-old existences upside down.

It becomes clear that the seeds of their present-day problems and disillusionments were planted all those years ago. And with the excellent six-strong company – Mark Carlisle, Frances Lima, Steve North and Kevin Pallister as well as co-writers Lucie Fitchett and Victoria Willing – playing both their real ages and their younger selves, with touching naivete, the point is even more effective. But there are a...

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