Our Brother David

Synopsis

It is the summer of 2010. Despite the rapid erosion of Fairwold's coastline and a global recession threatening local businesses, ex celebrity photographer David Tiller and his sister Sophie are managing to run their old family home as a guest house. But their peaceful existence is threatened when their one-time brother in law Lawrence and his stunning new girlfriend decide to spend a weekend by the sea... Our Brother David is a poignant tale of misplaced love, and a lively story of people trying to do the right thing in a crisis. Rich in humour, this beautiful new play, inspired by Chekhov's masterpiece Uncle Vanya, could make you think differently about the future.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 17 April 2012

There’s nothing wrong, in theory, with taking a couple of Chekhov plays and twisting them to serve a different purpose. All those disappointed people who find themselves far from the febrility of the capital city, yearning for something – or someone – just out of reach and skating around more material concerns, such as money.

This universality seems to beg to be displayed in a context removed both in time and in place. But practice doesn’t always march in step with theory. Anthony Clark presents his characters for Our Brother David for this première production within a setting by Ruari Murchison. Both Clark’s direction and Murchison’s designs meld the naturalistic with something which also has affinities with ritual and the symbolic.

It is all effective enough to watch. The trouble is that these larger-than-life people seem constrained by their creator into two rather than three dimensions. They’re by no mean...

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