When No One is Watching
From: Tuesday, 12th October 2010
To: Sunday, 31 October 2010
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Seven highly successful charity workers each awarded for their efforts in war-torn, disaster, or famine areas around the world are brought together for the reading of their late benefactor’s will. Each has been bequeathed an inheritance that they will only receive if in their private lives (when no one is watching) they have displayed the same humanity and selflessness as in the public arena. Upon examination each of the seven deadly sins emerges from each character threatening to jeopardise the inheritance of them all.
Our Review:
13 October 2010
Each one of us, however noble our deeds, is capable of ‘a detestable act’. That appears to be the premise of When No One Is Watching, written and directed by Mark Grey. Seven much lauded charity workers are summoned to a mysterious mansion to be told that they have a chance of a share of £20 million, bequeathed by one Edward Charles Montgomery, who ran ‘Command’, the humanitarian charity for which they all worked. They are unknown to each other, and none of them knows ‘Edward Charles’ either. So far so Agatha Christie.
Things then veer towards JB Priestley when several of them are questioned by the ‘Colonel’ about his wife. They deny all knowledge of her, then realise that they have somehow been complicit in her death without realising it – though quite what the Colonel and his wife have to do with Mr Montgomery is never made clear.
A kind of parlour game ensues whereby the guests ha...
Creative
Mark Grey (Author)
Agape Theatre Company (Company)
Mark Grey (Director)
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