The Red Hourglass
From: Monday, 22nd April 2013
To: Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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Synopsis
Glenfiddich Scottish Writer of the Year and "rising star" (The Scotsman), Alan Bissett, performs his first new work since his smash-hit Moira Monologues. In The Red Hourglass Bissett plays five parts: three male, two female, none of them human, locked up together in a mysterious facility. This is a dazzling, witty and erotic tour-de-force from one of Scotland's most versatile talents.
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23 April 2013
The St. Andrews Institute conducts experiments on spiders. But the experimental subjects have other things to worry about. A Hawk Wasp, the natural predator of the spider, has infiltrated the institute as a counsellor and the Lady with The Red Hourglass on her chest – The Black Widow- is starting to get her appetite back.
Walt Disney built an empire by imposing human characteristics on cute animals but he didn’t go as far as writer/ performer Alan Bissett. The arachnids have complete personalities – hopes, fears and beliefs. The House Spider is only too aware that, compared to his fellow inmates, his origins are humble and, in Bissett’s natural Scot brogue, he attempts to retain some dignity by recounting how an ancestor inspired Robert The Bruce.
Comic relief is provided by the neurotic Woody Allen style Recluse Spider who frets about his thousands of children. The Tarantula is a strutting macho creature boasting he is what you...
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Alan Bissett (Author)
Sacha Kyle (Director)
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