Late one night, two strangers meet on a bridge. Davy says he’s looking for a light. The woman says she’s waiting for a friend. Both of them are lying. Read more …
By turns funny and sad, “Bridge” follows the woman’s increasingly desperate efforts to get rid of the affable, annoying and seemingly oblivious Davy, who insists on telling her long-winded, often impenetrable stories about his life, and asking her questions that she pointedly ignores. Why, for example, has she not got her handbag with her?
Out of the roller coaster of their strangely emerging relationship comes the realisation that this chance encounter between two damaged people is anything but what it seems.
Franceschild shapes her drama with such skill and feeling – and such layers of truth, lies, intimacy and danger between her two characters – that she creates a riveting 50 minutes of 21st century drama.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday November 10, 2014, until Saturday November 15, 2014. More info: http://playpiepint.com
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