Leslie Black PhotographySlice is a play about cake. Three sisters convene in the house of their dying mother. As the recipe for Victoria Sponge plays out and the cake is baked before our eyes onstage, so the dark regrets, secrets and grievances which only sisters can hold, leak through the sponge’s buttery pores. It is a play with two halves. But no jam in the middle.
As sibling jealousies and differing memories of their upbringing bubble away, the icing on the cake comes from the performances rather than the script, with Hart in particular in fine hangdog, OCD baking mode.
I was left feeling that I had seen something more like the draft first episode of a continuing series, than a self-contained short play, with a confident voice of its own.
Seething resentment, family dysfunction and a talking cake that sounds like Molly Weir – nice lunchtime ingredients.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday March 19, 2012, until Saturday March 24, 2012. More info: http://playpiepint.com
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