A dyslexic tries her hand at
The Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth : 24/10/19 7:45pm performance:
Cast: Cryrus – Stanley J Browne Sonny – Reece Pantry Nella – Shenagh Govan Christine – Clare-Louise English Zoe – Evlyne Oyedokun Staging: minimal set up, with a single chair centre stage, a wooden curved frame stood over the chair, carrying props to allow the stage to change from scene to scene. A train board is lit up, implying London Underground – allowing the audience to place the play before it had even begun. The low rumble of underground trains is sounded as we enter, with a slight haze in the air. The lights showing blue and red, creating a purple red hue on the props on stage. The story is told through the perceptive of 5 characters in a series of present time and flash back scenes. In the beginning, we learn that s man ‘Sonny’ has been hit by a train, and are introduced to the train driver 'Cyrus' who was working that day. We start to learn the other characters and their relationship to Sonny as we begun to unwrap the story of what happened that night. With so many unanswered questions about what happened Cyrus going searching. The audience is kept in the dark with Cyrus as he starts to try and piece together the events that lead to that night. We see the flashbacks at the same moments Cyrus is finding the information so we are fully involved on the journey he is going on. During the flash back scenes we also see Sonny in his last few moments with a women he meets ‘Christine’ and has a lavish night together before his paranoia becomes overwhelming. 'Nella' who is Sonny and his sister ‘Zoe's’ adopted mother, is warm yet grieving as we see the void Sonny has left and the difficulty Zoe is having to attempt to fill that. There are subtle comments which allows the audience to infer that she is not their birth mum, until she later plainly states it. This pace allows the fact to be an important part of the story but not become the story itself. The topic of male suicide is still something that is not being talked about so it was an important story to tell. The performance was fully inclusive, with not only a wide representation of different bodies on stage which is especially important to Graeae but also fully accessible for those with disabilities. They offered hearing assistant via the headphones which are available by the door. With spaces offered at the back for wheelchair users. The screens which showed the train times quickly turned into the assessable screens showing each word the actors were saying which left little room for mistakes as the script was being broadcasted to the audience.
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