by
By Pavel Kohout, translated by Bill Findlay
Directed by Gerry Mulgrew
Another terrifying comedy from Eastern Europe, about political power and its manipulation
Assistant director Andy Farrell
Designer: Karen Tennent
Lighting Designer: Jeanine Davies
Costumes: Miriam Duffield
THE CAST:
THE COUPLE
JARTCHI: HELEN LOMAX
ENGL: MARTYN TIM WEBSTER
THE FIREFIGHTERS
VODICKA, COMMANDER, FIRE DEPARTMENT: LEWIS HOWDEN
JANIK, FIREFIGHTER: JON LEITH
TVRZNIK, FIRE DAMAGE INSPECTOR: NEIL McKINVEN
HURNIK, FIREFIGHTER: SIMON MACALLUM
Press: Kohout’s absurdist strategies are light, economical and witty, and the excellent Communicado company, directed by Gerry Mulgrew, enter into them with relish.
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH August 1998
Press: Helen Lomax is excellent as the tough young termagant bride, bargaining with peasant cunning over the spoils, but it is in the well drilled ensemble, typical of Communicado, that the acting honours lie, the discipline never flagging to the end, when a darker feel invades the comedy.
THE STAGE August 1998
Tour-1998
7-8 Aug-The Maltings, Berwick Upon Tweed
13 Aug-5 Sep- Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
8-12 Sep-Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
15-16 Sep- Macroberts Arts Centre, Stirling
17 Sep-The Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy,
21-23 Sep-The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25-26 Sep-Cumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld
29 Sep-Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
2-3 Oct-Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
7-10 Oct-Gilmorehill G12 Glasgow
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