Lazybed

Falling Cutlery present their first production

When cantankerous crofter Murdo takes to his bed and refuses to leave it his mother despairs, the neighbour smells scandal and the local clergyman declares him a limb of Satan. Read more …

His ‘metaphysical’ ailment leads to a blossoming friendship with a madcap Death and regular visits from the woman he loves, but when tragedy strikes will Murdo stick to his Kant and reject the "vanity of the spade" or seek love and real life? Or buy insurance?

Lazybed, Crichton Smith’s final play, is a comic meditation on the metaphysical and the real, love and marriage, mortality and the vanity of work.

More information on this production is available at www.fallingcutlery.com.

The critical consensus

This production of Lazybed is not going to set the Edinburgh theatre scene alight; but for connoisseurs of Crichton Smith, it's worth a look, as an earnest and thoughtful tribute to one of his more interesting works.

(*) (*) (*) Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 20/03/2011