Interiors

Synopsis

Interiors is a major international collaboration performed by actors from Italy and the UK. It is about a group of friends who sit down for a meal. It is about the things that happen when people eat and drink. About people who haven’t seen each other for a long time, about people who are all too familiar. About the present, the expected, the missing and the dead. It is about interiors and exteriors, about sound and silence. But most of all it is about the darkness outside the window.

Our Review:

23 April 2009

Anyone who saw State of Emergency at the Gate last year will feel a slight sense of déjà vu about the staging of Glasgow-based company Vanishing Point's latest show Interiors. Here, as then, glass panes sit between actors and audience, creating a very literal fourth wall. The major difference is that Interiors is a dumb-show, and all the more powerful for it.

The barrier gives one an eerie sense of voyeurism and detachment, more usually associated with watching a screen. The characters, who gather for a mid-winter dinner, become experiments in a laboratory, the only sound that of a ghostly omniscient narrator and Alasdair Macrae's thrumming, haunting soundscape. Only once does sound cross the diagetic divide, when we hear an on-stage stereo blasting out a series of pop songs - the dreaded 'party mix'.

The setting for this party is non-specific. The participants traipse through snow armed with guns to fend off animal attacks, so suffice to sa...

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