A HANDEUL or: DUST Citizens‘ Theatre, Glasgow, Thu 10 Mar—Sat 2 Apr
It is fitting that the Citz' new show comes hot on the heels of the announcemnt of the Windsor family’s latest nuptial celebrations. Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel of the joys and pains of divorce, the play promises to be a paean to marriage and all that it involves.
Almost a kind of Vile Bodies ‘next generation’, Waugh's story follows Tony Last and his coming to terms with his wife‘s infidelity, and the process and consequences of divorcing her.
‘At that time, adultery was still the only legal grounds for divorce,‘ says director Jeremy Raison. These days statistics suggest almost two-thirds of marriages end
unhappily, and although the perception of separation is very different from those in Waugh‘s time, the essential emotions and processes are the same. ‘Waugh himself was recently divorced when he wrote the books,‘ says Raison, ‘and correspondingly, although it still has his qualities of satirical observation and social comment, it also has a lot of depth and maturity and almost an otherworldliness feel to it. The end, for example, is pretty chilling.’
Our enthusiasm as a nation for a right royal wedding may have subsided, but a good divorce still makes the headlines and acts as a Heat-seeking missile to our interest in other people‘s private lives. So whether you’re a gay divorcee or a happy bachelor, put your pre-nup on ice and catch the show which puts a different emphasis on the words ‘I do‘. (Gareth Davies)
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I Whispers has always maintained that there are much worse things you can be than a tremendous old luwle. Never mind Marlon Brando's famous remark - ‘an actor's a guy who, if you ain‘t talking about him, ain't listening’ - when they're talking. there's often a lot of fun to be had. Recently, this amusing resource of actor's stories has found a purpose at the Fringe. A planned retrospective website, featuring people's recollections of Fringes of the 705 and 803, is on the go, and you can find a bigger audience for your favourite Fringe anecdote, as well as helping build intellectual and financial resources (there is scandalously little of the latter from funding bodies) for Edinburgh's playful August pride and joy. Go on, if you’re an actor. Whispers certainly knows you want to. The email address for enquiries and stories is fionaGedfringesom, or just go to the fringe website at edfringe.com. I The expanding colonialist pr0)ect which appears to be spreading across the world might make us more aware of the relationship oi peripheries to centres in our current times. Appropriate. then. that one of the great plays to make such comparisons. Brian Friel’s Translations. should be appearing before audiences at St Andrews. The third year acting students at Queen Margaret's Gateway, a talented little crowd this year, Will be performing this great interrogation of language and colonisation in a bygone Ireland for St Andrew's audiences until Saturday 5th March under the professional direction of Stephen Wrentmore (pictured). A tale. at times amusing. and sometimes tragic, of a bunch of British squaddies attempting to interpret both the landscape and language of Ireland for Westminster masters amidst an uncomprehending local community. the piece still packs a punch decades after its premiere. Go see.
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