The Chosen Ones
From: Monday, 4th April 2011
To: Saturday, 9 April 2011
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Synopsis
'No-one can leave the garden...' A warm, sunny evening in the garden of prosperous businessman Greg Harding's house. Greg has a dark secret, and his new gardener Callum knows all about it. When Greg and his grown up children Ben and Anna gather for a birthday barbecue, Callum arrives ready to act as judge, jury - and executioner. Over the course of the evening Callum breaks the close knit family apart, revealing the sins they have committed and the lies that tie them together, showing how a crime in the past has led to a tragedy in the present. All too soon it becomes clear that no-one will be allowed to leave the garden as Callum plays one member of the Harding family off against the other in a game none of them want to play. They've all made choices previously and now it is time for Greg to choose again, however this time it's a choice for a life. What would you do? In a terrifying climax Greg is forced to make his choice, however who can live with that truly horrific decision?
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 4 April 2011
It’s a warm afternoon as summer tips into autumn. A family of three stretch out on sun-loungers, sipping white wine and individually immersed in a glossy magazine, a paperback and a smart-phone/ Ayckbourn territory, perhaps? Or something darker? Pinter, for instance?
But the play’s title – The Chosen Ones – gives you a clue. Philip Gladwin has written a drama about retribution, about the avenging Nemesis (that dark goddess from classical mythology). She takes the shape of Callum, who materialises into the garden and the trio’s comfortable world with the pent-up furies of the past and the shattering of everyone’ futures in his rucksack.
The production company for this taut psychological chiller-thriller is new to me; Chesterfield-based Talking Scarlet. Patric Kearns’s direction is fast-moving – which occasionally leads to too-fast speaking on the part of his actors – with a simple but effective setting by [...
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Philip Gladwin (Author)
The Pomegranate Theatre Chesterfield (Producer)
Patric Kearns (Director)
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