one of those ideas i had which i forgot, and now remeber: LUTG presents "road"

good morning everyone!

  currently find myself in the lovely lancaster, where yesterday night i had the pleasure of watching the play "Road", presented by the Lancaster University theatre group. i remember that one of my old posts mentioned that i might do reviews in the future, so here is the first review ill do.  for anyone wanting to watch the play, be carefull of some important plot elements and spoilers throughout.

  ill start off by mentioning that the play was produced by Anthony Briscoe (a true Gent and a laugh-a-minute film maker), the only person involved with the play that i know (with the exception of assistant stage manager Ellie Silver, who i met once in a pub).  the director was Josh Coats, stage manager was Emma geraghty and the assistant stage managers are Victoria Spurway and the aforementioned Ellie Silver.

  all the actors and actresses were on top fom, but i will pick out the ones who really stood out.

  one of the best performanceds was Lauren Palphreyman as Clare, the lovable girlfriend of tortured soul Joey (played by the multi-talented Sean Goodwin, who also lays the comic soldier). the scene where Clare's final scene was the standout scene of the whole show, showing the play to be a very pofessional and well acted piece of drama.

  Peter Pearson was on top form as Curt and Blowpipe, however he was at his best as the mental skinlad. He could pull off the mentally unbalanced mindset with very powerful, and slightly worrying, realism. there was also little hints of comedy in his performance that made Skinlad one of the characters you wish has more stage-time.

  Luke Weeks was exceptional as Eddie, but was even better as the off-stage Mrs. Bald, he bounced off  Alex Skitts Bald perfectly as an arguning married couple, and all done in a monty python style shrill voice that made for laugh out loud comic relief.

Alex Skitts stole the show as Bald, the angry old codger, aswell as the ridicoulously comic Manfred (the chippy owner) and the fould mouth-ed DJ Bisto. that man has the acting energy of a fireworks display.

all the other characters were conmvincing and very well done. i could probably list all of them in a similar way but im running out of words. i mean, there was Hannah Mook, who switched from reserved and slightly creepy Molly to loud, outgoing Carol, there was Matt Saint as Eddie's dad, and who could forget Robin Francis Peter's Scullery...

i think, to some it all up, ill give it a strong 9 out of 10.