disbeliefwas shattered from then on. (Mark Willis)
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stage is the church andthe The story ofa federal silver screen is the devil. investigator under
This production makes i Reagan who first scant use of the huge 3 uncovered US arms arena at its disposal. the 5 shipments to Iran. this isa cast wander about the ; strange and disturbing stage aimlessly. - play to watch. Any sense commanding the vast ofiIIusion is deliberately chasm like a small ant : destroyed to keep us colony in the I lollywood aware. as we hear ofthe Bowl. The action is cynical conspiracy achineg static at times. wasting the clear potential of the cast who struggle to affect reality.
[)uring a moment of rare dynamism. one ofthe actresses ran too briskly from the stage. disturbing a large piece ofwooden scenery which fell upon an unsuspecting collcgue below. Fortunatelyshe was alert enough tododge it. but somehow one's willing suspension of ;
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between government and big business (apparently far biggerthan was exposed at the hearings) that it's all true.
Jennifer Bass‘ raw, tense. anguished performance depicts a man on the verge of breakdown. Not only has he lost job. wife and family. but through pursuing the truth be has come to feel he shares in the guilt the government refuses to acknowledge.
Examining the notion of collective responsibility. and the painful ambivalence of living under a system noble in theory but rotten in practice. the play is a powerful indictment ofthe corrupt and corrupting power wielded by the
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military-industrial complex. (Sue Wilson) I The Kashubian Tapes (Fringe) Eagle Mountain Productions. Marco‘s Leisure Centre (Venue 98) 229 8830, until 1 Sept. 2.45pm. £4 (£3.50).
IF BETTY SHOULD RISE
What starts off as a couple ofinconsequential. domestic soliloquies. suddenly becomes a gripping and moving performance when Canadian playwright David Demchuk gets round to focusing on the meat of his drama. Three grown-up sisters look back on their childhood and come to terms with their father‘s sexual abuse ofthe eldest. Betty. Betty‘s own testimony is by far the most telling and true. A few well placed lines in her monologue could easily have dispensed with the earlier meanderings of her siblings and nodoubt made her tale of childhood rape even more moving. It‘s nonetheless a
: painful and touching look
at the devastating social and psychological effects of child abuse. (Mark Fisher)
I ll Betty Should Rlse (Fringe) Theatre Erebus. Blow Up at Abbotsford. Abbotsford Lodge (Venue 84) 447 1 I22. 25. 28. 3()Aug& 1 Sept. 5pm. £2.50 (£2).
BEIRUT
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sufferers forced into quarantined slums while the rest of the world is banned from sex (babies
come from test-tubes).
The cast. Marc Marosi
and Dina Benadon. are
convincing as a sci-fi Romeo and Juliet. breaking across the divide of those with or without AIDS. Their
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and captivating. succeeding with a demanding script (it requires them to dothe
ls he worried about infecting her orjust unwilling to commit? ls she in love orjust a nympho? All these questions. and more. are answered in an entertaining and worthwhile production. (Adrian Scarle) I Beirut (Fringe) Festival Theatre USC-USA, Southside Community Centre (Venue 82) 23. 28. 30 Aug. 4pm, £3 (£2).
ON THE VERGE
The year is 1888— to begin with. anyway. Three women explorers reach Terra Incognita. This is no naturalistic territory— as they venture into the interior. geography and chronology merge; they encounter strange people and objects — relics from the future. They become pioneers in a different sense. exploring a new kind of frontier.
There are few props. no scenery: images and situations are conjured by the richly stylised dialogue. which deftly dramatiscs the translation
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