The Lie of the Land
From: Monday, 6th April 2009
To: Saturday, 2 May 2009
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Synopsis
A husband and wife have escaped the rat race and rising anarchy of the city, relocating to a remote coastal house. But are they really ready to spend so much time alone together? Should they be alarmed at the rising level of the sea they overlook? And what to make of the hook-nosed stranger, wandering the bridleways with a grubby coat and a violin?
Our Review:
9 April 2009
Plays in verse have drifted in and out of fashion over the past 50 years, but we seem to be a witnessing a slow resurgence. Personally, I welcome any attempt to move the drama away from the cinematic and televisual; so often these days one leaves a new play feeling that it would have been more suited to the screen.
Lie of the Land by Torben Betts is a dark, evocative and oddly disturbing two-hander which follows a married couple as they escape the rat race of the city and move to a remote house near the sea. Quite what they intend to do there other than escape remains vague, and their relationship gradually unravels as they both struggle with inner demons and feelings of regret and failure.
Outside their storm-racked hermitage, the rest of the world appears to be flooding, and the final powerful symbolic image of the play is quasi-biblical, with the couple seeking rescue and waving at the rest of humanity adrift on makeshift arks.
The couple are playe...
Creative
Torben Betts (Author)
Adam (Director)
Steve Mayo (Sound)
Oscar Sharp (projection) (Other)
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