Over Gardens Out
From: Tuesday, 19th October 2010
To: Saturday, 6 November 2010
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Synopsis
Over Gardens Out touchingly shows the relationship between two young lads, Jeffry and Dennis, potentially bright but hampered by their family backgrounds. The play is full of humour, ironically highlighting the sombre way in which the boys' surroundings slowly cripple their individuality.
Our Review:
22 October 2010
Like Riverside’s recently-revived The Sleepers' Den, Peter Gill’s second play is something of a period piece. There’s more than a taste of honey about this one-acter, which charts the sexual emergence of a young lad in the wrong side of the tracks Cardiff of Gill’s youth.
In the four years between the first play and Over Gardens Out (1969), the playwright had acquired a dramatic flair. A sequence of fragmented monologues performed simultaneously, and even the simple device of a prayer masquerading as the sound of a bluebottle, add theatrical fizz.
Under Sam Brown’s sharp and insightful direction, a superb cast bring this potentially mundane streak of 60s naturalism to blazing life. There’s a sketchiness to some of the characterisations as written (in particular Laura Hilliard’s...
Creative
Peter Gill (Author)
Adam Spreadbury-Maher (Producer)
Ben Cooper (for Good Night Presents) (Producer)
Sam Brown (Director)
Annemarie Woods (Design)
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