Trading Faces
From: Tuesday, 19th October 2010
To: Saturday, 6 November 2010
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Synopsis
Can you have passion and not fall in love? If you are involved can you have it all? What if your passions get the better of you? Three couples - Three complications - And one on the way. An engaging and funny look at how we try to get what we want by trying to make things fit. Six very different people, who have so much but not found a lot, are discovering the biggest obstacle to the way forward is ourselves. Maybe if we didn’t try so hard...
Our Review:
1 November 2010
Trading Faces, a new drama by Richard Bevan, is a short yet wide-ranging play about the complexities and duplicities involved in both short - and long-term relationships. Concerned with the difficulties of maintaining a relationship in modern day London, Bevan vividly realises the problems that confront lesbian, gay and straight couples - and those that lie somewhere outside such strict boundaries.
The stories of the various couples dovetail neatly with one another, and the varied settings provide momentum and sustain our interest in this group of romantic misfits. Bevan is at his best when he roves towards more taboo subject matter, in particular the relationship of a personal tutor with her disillusioned teenage student. Intelligently played by Georgia Winters and Stacha Hicks, this unconventional relationship is grippingly charged. The play struggles a little when Bevan attempts to bring the scenes of each couple's realisation together at once; the ...
Cast
Louise Bailey
Ben Buckstein
Sandra Darnell
Stacha Hicks
Leigh Kelly
John Nayagam
Nick Newman
Daniel Sommerford
Georgia Winters
Creative
Giant Olive (in association with The Actors Ensemble) (Producer)
Sam Rubelow (Director)
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