Best Friends

Synopsis

'Women are always friends in threes. That way everyone can talk about everyone behind their backs and still remain good friends, right?' Tirtza, Sophie and Lali, are a seemingly inseparable threesome that will be familiar to anyone who has ever played in a playground. Friends since their first cigarettes and snogs with boys at school, they thought nothing could come between them, but something has. Once more it's up to Lali, the eternal peacemaker, to do whatever she has to, to pull them back together again. Intercutting the stories of the adult and schoolgirl trio, Anat Gov unpeels the layers of laughs, bitching and betrayal that lead these best friends to become bitter enemies and back again.

Our Review:

18 May 2005

Israeli writer Anat Gov’s play Best Friends won an award in her native country and was nominated for a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival in its English incarnation. Wisepart Productions are responsible for this staging, and the former at Edinburgh, which retains two of the original cast as well as the director Susannah Pack.

Set in Israel between the 1970s and the 1990s, the play centres on a trio of females in their teens and in their thirties simultaneously, thanks to the device of having two actors playing each character. What the piece tries to do is show us these girls forming their relationship and then later as women reuniting at the behest of Lali, who has some important news to divulge. This meeting inevitably ends in confrontation and the opening of old wounds as histories are related.

The main problem with Gov's writing is that it tells us an awful lot but shows very little - it’s a very descriptive piece with not enough action. An...

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