ScotsGay Magazine

*****

Some plays are easy to review and some are difficult. This one was towards the impossible end of the scale because it is a play where if I reveal too much of the story it could ruin it when you see it, and I think you should. I initially thought this was going to be extremely hard work. It wasn't, but it did take a while to get into it because it didn't appear to be in chronological order. I'm sure this was deliberate for part of what this addressed was the difference between real life and a screenplay. The way we can see ideal worlds on film and the lives we have to live. It explored truth and fiction, the way we don't always tell the truth, and the reasons for that. Translated from French it is set in Montreal but is delivered in Scots voices. This is a stroke of genius for the story could just as well be set in Motherwell or Morningside and would lose nothing for that. It gets increasingly witty and as I heard one audience member saying on the way out "the audience left smiling". We did indeed, and rightly so.

Martin Powell

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