Gruesome Playground Injuries
From: Tuesday, 22nd January 2013
To: Saturday, 16 February 2013
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Synopsis
You've got like super powers. Even tonight. When we kissed, you kissed my missing tooth. The gap. And it stopped hurting. When Kayleen and Doug meet in the nurse's office of their elementary school aged 8, she can't stop being sick and he's pedalled his bike off the roof. Over the course of the next 30 years an intensely unusual love story develops that is as delicate and raw as its protagonists. Passionate, infuriating heart-warming and heartbreaking; their own destructiveness continues to force them apart, only to be drawn together again. And again.
Our Review:
31 January 2013
Doug and Kayleen are long-time friends. We meet them first at eight, then at 38 and somewhere inbetween. With little theoretically in common at the start of their relationship, a relentless swathe of injuries and illness and an unspoken feeling of being a permanent outsider brings them together over the years. They develop in some ways, but almost regress in others, never quite achieving true adulthood, scarred in every which way, visibly and mentally.
Their friendship is fractious and furious but sweet and subdued too. The two never quite see eye-to-eye, though, and moments of connection are few and far between. You get the feeling that had these two ever really found each other, perhaps Doug’s life would have taken a completely different path – one that didn’t include telegraph poles and school roofs, gashes and gouges and even eventual paralysis.
The super-talented Felix Scott, so impressive in The Chair Plays at the Lyric Hammersmith ...
Cast
Mariah Gale (Kayleen)
Felix Scott (Doug)
Creative
Rajiv Joseph (Author)
Paul Jellis (in association with the National Theatre Studio and the Gate Theatre) (Producer)
The Leverhulme Bursary for Emerging Theatre Directors (Company)
Justin Audibert (Director)
Lily Arnold (Design)
Andy Purves (Lighting)
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Sound)
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