Satin 'n' Steel

Synopsis

The Vince Steel Experience needs a shake-up. A karaoke competition at the Rainworth Miners Welfare Club brings Vince Steel and Teena White together in an explosion of talent and creativity. As the all-singing and all-dancing Satin 'n' Steel duo Vince Steel and Teena Satin set their hearts on making the big time. As love blossoms between the pair, it seems nothing could go wrong, but a guilty secret threatens to jeopardise their designs for super-stardom.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 8 February 2012

Ambition can be corrosive. Take the two characters whose professional fortunes and private relationships over a number of years who we follow in Amanda Whittington’s 2005 play. We meet them at a point where they are – more or less – back where they began. That’s in a pub upper room, the sort of place which runs talent contests in between featuring performers of both the might-have-been and would-like-to-be variety.

It’s very well served up by director Matt Devitt and even more so by designer Mark Walters, who puts before us a set which conjures both the trunk roads upon which such performers spend much more time than on any sort of stage and a succession of venues. The costume changes as time speeds by and careers develop are extremely well handled – there’s some top-notch stage management organising these behind the scenes.

The more interesting character is Teena (Kate Robson-Stuart). From a wannabe who has missed out i...

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