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Midsummer - A Play with Songs

Tricycle Theatre, Inner London
From: Monday, 29th November 2010
To: Saturday, 29 January 2011

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Synopsis

It's Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Two thirtysome-things are sitting in a New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. He's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld and she's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's out of his league and he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Ever. Ever... Which is why they do.

Our Review:

1 December 2010

Midsummer is the shortest night of the year, but the show Midsummer has demonstrated surprising longevity. First performed at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in October 2008 and a big hit at the following year's Fringe, David Greig and Gordon McIntyre's little 'play with songs' has since transferred to London's Soho Theatre and toured Ireland, Scotland, Canada and the USA. Not bad for a piece so firmly routed in its writers' home patch, an ode to Edinburgh's highs, lows and romantic possibilities.

Returning to London for another two months at the Tricycle, has it lost any of its pulling power? It would seem not. The story of mismatched thirysomethings Helena and Bob (Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon) is at once so local and so universal that anyone can relate to the questions at its heart: "Will I achieve anything in life?"; "Can I love?" and "Is this it?"

Creativity rescues it from possible cliche. From the outset, this was a coll...

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