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Plume

Judgement. Then punishment. That's how it's supposed to work. Then. And now. Read more …

In a non-descript budget hotel room, a grieving father prepares to leap to his death as a high profile press event gets underway across the road. Twenty years before, his son William was killed in a terrorist attack on an aeroplane. Mr Peters has been picking up the pieces ever since, clinging on to the fragments of memories, the childhood imaginings that have become the only salve for his anger.

With Jon Snow in the lobby, a former justice minister making last-minute changes to his speech, and an abandoned bird perch at the window, can bellboy Maller talk her old teacher down from the ledge; or will the mystery bird carry him off in an epic, unimaginable rescue?

Cast in the lead role of Mr Peters is Sylvester McCoy, whose acting credits include the role of Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson's forthcoming Hobbit movies; the seventh incarnation of Doctor Who in the cult BBC series, and raft of theatre productions from companies such as the RSC, National Theatre & Welsh National Opera.  The cast also includes Gemma McElhinney of award winning Monster in the Hall (Citizens'/TAG) and Finn Den Hertog, who starred in the Tron's 2011 panto Mister Merlin.


The critical consensus

Tests the patience with its contrivances...the play's philosophical musings aren't as weighty as it seems to think they are.

**(*)(*)(*)Shona Craven, The Herald, 05/03/2012

A little overwrought, but an intriguing, heartfelt performance nonetheless.

***(*)(*)Missy Lorelei, The Skinny, 05/03/2012

Despite its flaws, I found "Plume" to be a powerful and emotional piece of theatre, just not in the way I expected it to be.

View from the Stalls, 05/03/2012

The role is well played by McCoy, alternating between hang-dog gloom and chirpy stoicism, with excellent support from Gemma McElhinney and Finn Den Hertog. Andy Arnold's production is a short, thoughtful, sometimes beautiful study of the perils of "using death as a weapon".

***(*)(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 05/03/2012

This is, in its worst moments, an embarrassingly shapeless and half-cooked drama, full of over-complex images and under-dramatised concepts; barely ready, it seems, for a lunchtime slot at Oran Mor, far less a mainstage production at the Tron.

**(*)(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, 08/03/2012


Features about Plume

Plume is JC Marshall's Lockerbie-inspired play starring Sylvester McCoy

Yasmin Sulaiman, The List, 27/02/2012

Who is the real McCoy?

Evening Times, 28/02/2012

Where and when?

Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Thursday March 1, 2012, until Saturday March 17, 2012. More info: www.tron.co.uk

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