Spur of the Moment
From: Wednesday, 14th July 2010
To: Saturday, 21 August 2010
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Synopsis
Pre-teen Delilah enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Whilst her parents throw verbal grenades at one another, they barely notice their 21 year old tenant starting to notice her. Spur of the Moment looks at the distance between close family relations and a young girl on the brink of adolescence. It is the debut play by Anya Reiss, written when she was seventeen.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 21 July 2010
There is no plot in Anya Reiss’ Spur of the Moment, just the raw, jangling sound of a 12 year-old girl, Delilah Evans, developing a crush on a 21-year-old “hot” lodger, Daniel Mast, to the amusement of her friends and the annoyance of Daniel’s girlfriend, Leonie, who comes to stay.
Delilah’s parents, Vicky and Nick, are tearing each other to shreds, bickering and fighting over tea and coffee, every domestic incident cast in the shadow of marital break-down: Nick has had an affair with his boss, “an older woman,” (he’s in his early 50s) and has been sacked.
Reiss, another talented product of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Programme, is studying for her A-levels and wrote the play when she was seventeen. She has written down exactly what she has heard, translated the rhythms and backchat of everyday life into bitty but well-expressed dialogue that achieves its own momentum.
With her three school friends, ...
Latest User Review
Andrew B - 9 August 2010:
Four stars. An astonishingly accomplished play by Anya Reiss - she should be very proud of her achievement - and some remarkable performances. Top marks all round! Scoring less, however, were the two annoying women next to me, who seemed to treat the evening as an English Language course, muttering to each other at regular intervals. ...
Cast
Rosie Day (Naomi)
Kevin Doyle (Nick Evans)
Aisling Loftus (Leonie Fowler)
Jordan Loughran (Emma M)
James McArdle (Daniel Mast)
Yasmin Paige (Emma G)
Sharon Small (Vicky Evans)
Shannon Tarbet (Delilah Evans)
Creative
Anya Reiss (Author)
Royal Court (Producer)
Jeremy Herrin (Director)
Max Jones (Design)
Malcolm Rippeth (Lighting)
Ian Dickinson (for Autograph) (Sound)
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