I Love Vinegar Vera - (What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted)

Synopsis

Joe Whiteside is the pencilled portrait on the back of the beer mat. Vinegar Vera is gossip and rumour. They are both characters born out of the myth and legend of working class communities but they are both skin and bone. Their eyes meet across the crowded room of a backstreet pub and it is love at first sight, that the community of regulars can t see working out. I Love Vinegar Vera defends the right of all people to be vulnerable and all vulnerable people to be given their rights. It challenges all the judgement callers, Kyles and Cowells and all others alike... to care. It calls out to all lost souls and soul fans. It calls for an end to the condemnation. Does the chancer deserve to be given a second chance? Should we all be given the benefit of the doubt? Come to the pub and see the regulars as you have never seen them before.

Our Review:

4 November 2011

I love Vinegar Vera (what becomes of the broken hearted?) is an ambitious and creative work from writer Nadia Drews and Director Jen Hayes from Cut to the Chase Productions.

Joe Whiteside (Nick Birkinshaw), an unemployed former trade unionist, meets the alcoholic, karaoke singing Vera (Laura Campbell) in a backstreet pub and romance ensues.

Birkinshaw is a sympathetic Joe, exhausted to the point of collapse but still hanging onto his ideals. While Laura Campbell is perfect as Vinegar Vera; with her high heels, short dress and smudged makeup - you are reminded of a Saturday night in town. The two of them, initially so different, make a convincing and sweet couple. Their story is
supported by a group of regulars who act as a chorus and the pub landlord (Chris Hannon).

Writer Nadia Drews’ song writing background is evident in the poetry of the piece. Every sentence contains a clever wordplay, and the d...

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