A middle aged man, Harold, Gary McKay, is
listening to music on his headphones in his safe haven in Wales
together with his crippled daughter asleep in the next room, and
fails to hear the doorbell. The
man’s reverie is shattered by the intrusion of 19 year old Hannah,
Alix Wilton-Reagan, his now dead friend’s daughter who is looking
for shelter and food which Harold grudgingly provides and then with
the addition of whisky stories and stories unfold that will change
both their lives radically.
This is an excellent play, well written by
James Saunders and director Sophie Lifschutz extracts beautiful yet
occasionally edgy performances from the two actors. As the secrets,
situations and events are revealed an air of tension is almost
palpable at times, occasionally being released only to build again.
The seventy minutes the play runs was all
too short for all and it should be a must for late evening Fringe
viewing.
****
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