Donna Rutherford and Martin O’Connor invite you into the heart of the home for some nourishment. Through a series of family photographs we zoom in on a son and a mother keeping a tight hold on expectations. Overheating in nylon polo-necks that clash with knitted tank-tops we will outgrow. New images upstage the old ones. Borderlands of memory with disappointment around the corner... Read more …
Pull up a good strong chair and sit around the kitchen table... Do you think we can do that, do you? Just this once? Can we sit down properly, like a “normal” family?
The piece shifts wildly between observations which are original, moving and insightful, and others which, in their more straightforwardly sociological inclinations, are more banal. Its presentation is similarly uneven, leaving this occasionally affecting show feeling somewhat incomplete.
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Wednesday November 6, 2013, until Saturday November 9, 2013. More info: www.tron.co.uk