Sitting with Thistle
From: Tuesday, 29th November 2011
To: Saturday, 10 December 2011
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Synopsis
It s been snowing solidly for two weeks. Mark and Elyse have been staying with their reclusive grandmother waiting for a family reunion that never happened. They ve been trapped there for four days. Gran died after two...
Our Review:
Simon Harvey-WIlliams - 30 November 2011
Marietta Kirkbride’s atmospheric two-hander Sitting With Thistle brings Theatre West’s ‘Picture This’ season to an end with suitable aplomb. Siblings Mark and Elysé are snowbound in deepest darkest Wales in the ramshackled cottage of their eccentric and recently deceased grandmother – in fact so recently deceased that the body is in the room next-door. Their claustrophobic predicament tests their – already strained – relationship to the limit and over the course of the evening long-held grievances and secrets are dramatically revealed.
Anna Michael’s beautifully designed set immediately makes you feel as if you’ve stepped into the old lady’s bizarrely decorated cottage (with bric-a-brac and sheep’s skulls on the wall).
The play begins with Elysé (played by Natasha Pring) doing her best to ignore the non-stop bored banter of her high-flying brother Mark (played by Paul Hassall) who is over from New York. As they await news from their parents on...
Creative
Marietta Kirkbride (Author)
Theatre West (Producer)
Ed Viney (Director)
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