Bea
From: Wednesday, 1st December 2010
To: Saturday, 8 January 2011
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Synopsis
Bea is lively, naughty and full of life. When she asks something of her mother that no parent would want to be asked, and of ‘Not Gay Ray’ something far beyond the call of duty, they are both forced to challenge the boundaries of their own compassion.
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Michael Coveney - 10 December 2010
Mick Gordon’s On Theatre project is designed to investigate the components of consciousness and belief formation. In the latest case study, that of teenager Bea, we are taken deep inside the instinct, ethics and practical business of assisted killing, but not in a theoretical way.
Bea, stricken with an unspecified, incurable illness, wants to die, resigned to the fact that she will never have a life, children or a house. There’s still time for sex, though; but how?
The play is set more or less entirely on and around her huge bed, with a vast headboard studded with key rings, lucky charms and other tokens of a teenage girl. This has been her only environment for eight years, and she shares it with her barrister mother, Katherine, and an Irish carer, Not Gay Ray (“How can I be gay? I’m from Belfast”).
The writing is shockingly direct and frank, with Pippa Nixon’s spirited, indefatigable Bea bouncing around like a small girl on Christmas morning, and then suddenly de...
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Kimberly Birdsall - 28 December 2010:
Loved it. Walked away moved and uplifted and very, very impressed...
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