Somewhere in rural Lanarkshire Craw leads Catherine to an ancient stone bridge and the promise of a new life with the son she abandoned at the same spot many years before. Read more …
Both women have nothing to lose. Forced to flee her home with her young baby, following the death of her husband, vulnerable Catherine reluctantly follows Craw, whose haunting past drives a desperate quest for forgiveness, bringing them ever closer to danger.
When danger finds them, Craw flees, leaving Catherine to survive alone, no matter what the cost.
Set in another Scotland, Roman Bridge is a play about survival, sacrifice, murder, and love and asks if we can ever truly leave the past behind to make a new life.
Following a rehearsed reading of Roman Bridge as part of Reveal 2011, Roman Bridge marks the first professional production of a new play by Martin Travers. Martin has been teamed with talented young director Amanda Gaughan, who recently completed a Bank of Scotland New Directors placement on The Missing.
The rhythm of the piece really comes into its own in the second Act, as you find yourself gripped by which way the fates will fall for three characters who have all been dealt a bum hand in life.
Brutally intense.
The greatest pleasure is Travers’ muscular dialogue, at once flinty and naturalistic and richly lyrical, which marks him out as a new voice to relish in the future.
It’s a grim tale, which reimagines Scotland as a Howard-Barker-style wasteland of human barbarism, where every fragile sign of love or compassion is in constant danger of being snuffed out.
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow from Wednesday May 2, 2012, until Saturday May 12, 2012. More info: www.citz.co.uk
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