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Two Women and a Chair
Verdict: Audition set-up
Edinburgh 04 -
C Central - 14:30 (45mins)
Two women enter a room. There’s a damp chair in the centre covered in foliage.
Helen (Helen Macfarlane) is pretty in an old-fashioned way, a daddy’s girl in flowery dress. Kat (Kat Brown) is cynical and foul-mouthed, a street-wise lesbian. They take an instant dislike to each other.
They’ve come to audition for a play about a lady and her maid. Kat: ‘The lady is cool and remote and a total bitch; the servant is calculating, cool and a total weasel. All in all it has the makings of a great lesbian love story.’
Kat wonders suspiciously why she’s been asked – she walked out on the director’s last production at the final rehearsal. Helen - naïve and starry-eyed - thinks the director is wonderful. No-one else arrives. The door is locked. They are left with each other, the chair and the fourth wall – a dance-studio-style mirror.
Combining the two different flyers they’ve been given, they realise that together they say ‘whoever takes possession of the chair must try and keep it’. They begin a half-hearted improv game. Kat thinks the director is watching from behind the mirror.
They swap life-experiences, discover how ordinary their day jobs are - and try to decide what to do next. After swapping clothes, a change takes place. Will they escape?
The action is entertaining. Characters and plot develop quickly in the play’s short duration.
Cast Credits (alpha order): Kat Brown - Jessie / Kat. Helen Macfarlane - Marine / Helen.
Company Credits: Director - Charlotte Matthews. Writer – Michael Olsen. Technical Operator – Venue Staff. Company – Not Now! Theatre Company.
END
(c) Peter Andrews 2004
reviewed 17 August 04 / C Central
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2010
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