Last night we enjoyed the second of our Full Length Plays, The Father by Florian Zeller performed by White Cobra.

Well this one made us think! Close to the bone as they say. Chris made the comment that the subject of Dementia is “A conversation we all need to have with ourselves.”

Following on from Caryl Churchill and Harold Pinter. It makes no sense! Both to the afflicted and their families. Logic goes out of the door! The elements sympathetically portrayed in the play: time shifts, false memories, abuse (real or imagined), forgetfulness, misplacing and hiding of possessions, fear and eventual obliteration of the person we know and love. It’s not all doom and gloom, however, there was humour and compassion.

A brave choice professionally executed by White Cobra. Thank you for a taste of theatre to mirror life!

– Ron Beswick

Tonight we have our next two One Act plays:

Rushen Players present Two by Jim Cartwright
A real time, one scene snapshot of life in a local pub one weekend evening. The action revolves around the landlord and landlady, who run the pub,and different pairs of people who are customers. It moves back and forth, spotlighting the different relationships,
coming back to the landlord and landlady each time. Most of the characters are portrayed by the two actors on stage.

Interval

Platform Theatre School present Viral by Maria McConville
In this ensemble-driven drama featuring an all-female cast, five high school girls recount a cruel locker room bullying incident that is initially cloaked in secrecy, but ultimately goes viral online. What happens next forces the students to question their respective roles in the events that unfolded in that fateful day.