Snake in the Grass
From: Wednesday, 9th February 2011
To: Saturday, 12 March 2011
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Synopsis
For Annabel and her sister Miriam their sunlit garden is filled with deeply buried childhood memories. But when night begins to fall is it only the past which comes back to haunt them? Or something infinitely more terrifying?
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 14 February 2011
What a surprise. Snake in the Grass is an unknown 90-minute ghost story and thriller by Alan Ayckbourn dating from 2002, not before seen in London. It suits the tiny new Print Room off Westbourne Grove perfectly, or at least in Lucy Bailey’s highly charged, atmospheric production, it does.
Two middle-aged sisters, divided for many years, come together on a crumbling outdoor tennis court in the family house after the death of their father. Miriam (Sarah Woodward), bitter and spinsterish, has been doing the dirty work of looking after the abusive old boy while Annabel (Susan Wooldridge, a failed businesswoman), has been abroad in Tasmania.
There are twists and turns right to the end, but the dominant situation is that Miriam admits that she over-dosed Dad and pushed him down the stairs, and that his former nurse, Alice (Mossie Smith), an abrasive loudmouth bearing a grudge, knows the score and wants a big pay day in exchange for keeping clear of t...
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Katherine Andreau - 15 February 2011:
Wonderful. Don't miss it. ...
Cast
Susan Wooldridge (Annabel)
Sarah Woodward (Miriam)
Mossie Smith (Alice)
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
The Print Room (Producer)
Lucy Bailey (Director)
William Dudley (Design)
Richard Howell (Lighting)
Neil Alexander (Sound)
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