Leslie Black PhotographyPowerful drama set against the back-drop of the Spanish Civil War. David Hayman and Sean Scanlan play two men from opposite sides of this brutal conflict... Trapped in a looted cafe while armed vigilantes roam the streets outside. Read more …
Scanlan and Hayman turn in decent performances, but while Harkins’s script has plenty of bluster, and some of the class divide point scoring is interesting, the production lacks the intensity and intellectual rigour of the mini-season of Latin American political plays that kick-started this run.
he texture of Harkins’s writing is often crass and obvious, and the play contains no action to speak of. Yet at its best...it provokes some thought about how hatred of arrogant elites can drive ordinary workers to the right as well as to the left; and how those who claim to care for social justice inflict terminal damage on their cause, when they fail to live out the full meaning of the values they call their own.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday May 30, 2011, until Sunday June 5, 2011. More info: http://playpiepint.com
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