This is tense, passionate, edge-of-the-seat theatre at its best. The winds batter a remote cottage in the Borders. Emma enters this “animals’ lair” for her long planned encounter with its owner, Robert. Years before, the worlds of Robert’s father and Emma’s mother collided in a way that would affect their children’s lives forever. Today, that situation is going to be resolved… Read more …
The production is brought to life by two superb Scottish actors Lesley Hart as Emma and Jordon Young as Robert and directed by John Carnegie. John is no stranger to Rowan Tree, having directed the workshop version of Sins of the Father, Frederic Mohr’s Barry, his own Hermiston and Confessions of a Justified Sinner for the company. Production stylist is Gregory Smith.
The play stands, though, as a useful warning about the death-dealing horror of any creed that allows for no redemption, and no change; and offers an unusually intense theatrical experience to audiences in Biggar, Carlops, Coldstream and Yetholm, as it tours on this week.
On Tour, from Friday September 30, 2011, until Saturday October 15, 2011.
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