The Confidant

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A Play, a Pie and a Pint & NTS continue their Latin American theatre season

Gilberto Pinto’s play unfolds in an undefined Latin American country emerging from a period of military dictatorship and repression. It could be one of a number of countries who suffered such regimes. Read more …

The Confidant is a tight two-hander about a husband and wife, who - in the grips of the most awful argument of their life - reveal that they know more about the other's past than either could have imagined.  This is a fiercely political play, brimming with rage, but with twists and turns along the way, as husband and wife battle it out over revolutionary ideals and a dying love.

Featuring Lori McLean and Jon Morrison.

The critical consensus

By comparison with the emotional depth on show in recent weeks, The Confidant comes across as hysterically lightweight.

(*) (*) Alan Chadwick, The Herald, 09/03/2011

This brief 40-minute play packs a huge punch, and reminds us that in the great struggle between good and evil, the personal is always political, and that declaring ourselves on the side of the angels is an empty gesture unless we also have the courage to live by the principles we say we embrace.

(*) Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 11/03/2011

Bissett’s script is compelling and provocative.

Emma, TV Bomb, 15/03/2011