Lone Star
From: Tuesday, 28th August 2007
To: Sunday, 23 September 2007
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Synopsis
Lone Star is set in small-town Texas. Roy is a brawny, macho type and local high school hero just back from Vietnam, who worships his country, his wife and his Thunderbird. His younger brother Ray worships him. With the arrival of a fatuous hardware store owner, a lot of beer and a lot of stories, Roy's world begins to collapse. Despite it all, a breezy, happy ending ensues...
Our Review:
31 August 2007
Some eye-catching celebrity casting for these two American five-finger exercises will undoubtedly attract audiences from outside the King's Head's usual Islington catchment area. Lone Star and PVT Wars, a short 1979 comic double bill about the aftershocks of the Vietnam experience, play out in the tradition of Catch 22, M*A*S*H , and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
In the first, set entirely on the back porch of a bar, a Texan local hero discovers life in his one horse town has moved on while he has been in Vietnam. In the second, three damaged soldiers from very different backgrounds while away the hours on the terrace of a military hospital.
The performances mark the stage debut of James Jagger – son of Mick and Jerry Hall – who plays alongside household name Shane Richie. Jagger, who looks like his dad with a dash of a young Donald Sutherland thrown in, has the chops to become a major star ...
Creative
James McClure (Author)
King's Head (Producer)
Henry Mason (Director)
Georgia Lowe (Design)
Mike Robertson (Lighting)
Kimberly Egan (Sound)
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