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Transience and entrapment
The freedom extended to the affluent West seems only to create a greater sense of loss in the characters of David Greig, who wander aimlessly through a tachnologised culture with nothing but their alienation and neurosis for company. 0r certainly, that‘s a strong strand in his work, evinced here as an echo of such previous work as Mainstream and The Cosmonaut.
San Diego takes place on a visit to that city by one David Greig (Billy Boyd), 3 reinvented other self of the dramatist, who is stabbed and seems to die early on. Meanwhile his creations, Ozymandias-ike, live on in the person of a lonely and alienated airline pilot (Tony Guilfoyle), his daughter (Abigail Davies), 3 self-harmer confined to a clinic. and his son, (Nicholas Pinnock) a rather vain actor, whose relationship with his wife (Vicki Lidelle) has deteriorated to the point at which she wishes to become a nun. A multitude of other characters, all struggling with an atomised culture, infest the play, which manages to retain a coherency despite its sprawling scope.
There are some slow moments in the first half of the piece, enlivened mainly by some byplay between two working men, with the rather sacrificial and paternalistic names, Innocent (Paul Thomas Hickey) and Pious (Callum Cuthbertson). That folk of this class should be used as a comic subplot for the more serious posh characters, does, I confess, leave a bad taste in my mouth, but both Cuthbertson and Hickey are splendid in the roles. The pair are assisting a young man (Milton Lopez) to find his mother, who seems to have disappeared after playing with the band Wings in the 705.
There‘s a vaguely unfinished feel to Greig and Maria Zanotti‘s production in front of Simon Vincenzi‘s multimedia design, featuring a great collection of suitcases, indicating, perhaps, the transience of the characters. All the same, the piece winds up to a powerful emotional climax, and Greig‘s characteristic humour pervades the play to good effect. (Steve Cramer). I ‘11." yam: 11.: "
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