Safer
From: Tuesday, 5th October 2010
To: Saturday, 23 October 2010
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Synopsis
Betty and Phil are cut off from the outside world. For months they’ve survived in their barricaded home, scavenging from outside and rationing within. Outside isn’t safe. They get by - their relationship has lasted for decades but can Phil ever let go? But when their home is invaded, all that changes. Subverting the genre of survivalist fiction, this darkly comic play provides a sharp commentary on our contemporary culture of fear, and a claustrophobic character study of an abandoned elder generation.
Our Review:
8 October 2010
Opening in the week of the Conservative Party Conference Aaron Lamont’s new play Safer, for Trifle Productions, reveals a flip side to David Cameron’s ‘big society’. It is the story of Phil and Betty, an elderly couple who have barricaded their home against the outside world where society has broken down and armed gangs roam the streets.
Brave Phil (Michael Grinter) makes occasional foraging trips, returning with canned food and goods from empty shops and bins. He also brings tales of the danger beyond the safety of their home. Betty (Maggie Turner) believes his stories and lives as he does in perpetual fear of the hoodlums who lurk outside, waiting to break in.
But as the play unfolds it becomes clear that the broken society is Phil’s creation to keep Betty where he wants her, in the home looking after and relying on him for everything. It is only when a young man - Ant (Josh Enright) - breaks in to their hom...
Creative
Aaron Lamont (Author)
Cassandra Hodges (for Trifle Productions) (Producer)
Benjamin Bate (Director)
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