No Wonder
From: Tuesday, 26th January 2010
To: Thursday, 28 January 2010
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Synopsis
A hit at this year’s National Student Drama Festival and 24:7 Festival, this challenging play is a fairytale for people who’ve stopped reading fairytales. There is a wardrobe with no snowy world to slip into. There is a man who finds he can’t fly. There is a boy who wishes he could, and a woman who watches the washing washing away.
Our Review:
27 January 2010
The title may be bleak, suggesting a loss of hope, yet author Claire Urwin skilfully subverts this by illustrating that people do not always need fairy tales to help them survive. Peter is left comatose after an accident caused by his seven-year old son Luke, who innocently interrupts an amorous role-play game between his parents.
No Wonder examines the efforts of Luke (Edward Franklin) and his mother Alison (Virginia Barrett) to adjust to Peter’s condition. Luke, his perception shaped by fairy tales as much as by what he learns in school, struggles to understand why a kiss cannot awaken his father. As guilt begins to grow he turns to self-harm for relief. Alison alternates between being resourceful and plunging into despair.
No Wonder explores the benefits and limitations of make-believe in helping us cope with the upsets of life. Practical solutions (tales can be use...
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Claire Urwin (Author)
Heart Off Guard Theatre Company (Company)
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