Silent Gutter was back with two short one-act plays that were truly Kafkaesque and oppressive. The small studio space, blackout stage with almost no props and a constant sound-track of stifling air-conditioning or prison background noise added to the feeling of claustrophobia that ran through both plays.
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When the punters had finished ordering at the bar the staff member left and the actors took their places. John Maguire and Sam Alton became the husband and wife team running the establishment and were a northern equivalent of Den and Ange from eighties Eastenders days at the Queen Vic.
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The company has built a reputation for surreal and challenging drama which often wrong-foot audiences but leave them awakened and entertained In this double bill of tense one-act plays, a prisoner is interrogated by an indomitable force of oppression, leaving the detainee questioning reality and battling for their last shred of humanity. Caged Time is an existential boxing match, a metaphysical game of chess, a duel with language.
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The drama is set behind the bar of a typical northern pub, the Landlord and Landlady are a husband and wife team constantly at each other's throats. We meet a kaleidoscope of regulars who all frequent their local. The bickering couple feud behind the bar whilst trying to keep everyone in high spirits. A nightly melody of madness, melancholia and merriment. But when a little boy is left behind by his father, a fragile reconciliation occurs as their own dark tragedy is revealed.
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Dominic Quinn, a versatile actor stepping into the arena of writing for the first time, Dominic has a theatrical background with recent notable performances at the Everyman in productions like 'The Crown Duels' and 'Be You Living or Be You Dead.' With a passion for original Liverpool based theatre, Dominic is on a mission to bring more of it into the limelight.
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We caught up with Elspeth Todd, the writer of Four, for an in-depth interview to get an insight into her background, motivation, inspiration and thinking.
Tell us about your writing.
Writing came on a whim. I’ve never really had the confidence to write, as someone who went through school being told they weren’t good enough or stupid even after being diagnosed very late in life with Dyslexia and cognitive processing issues, I was still described as ‘simple.’ Since then, I’ve always been terrified to write stuff down.
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If you are as old as me you may remember the SUS laws. These gave the police powers to stop and search and potentially arrest people on flimsy suspicion. Effectively it was used by institutionally racist police forces in the late 1970s and early 1980s to harass young black men and led to many wrongful arrests, antagonism, riots and protests.
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The Opening Nights podcast will next focus its attention on Naughty Corner Production’s ninth show – Sheep written by Oliver Back and directed by Mikee Dickinson. This production was all ‘set to go’ back in April 2020 (with the actors waiting patiently in their pen) but then the pandemic slaughtered so many of theatres young, frolicking lambs at that time. So the show has now been nineteen months in the making and waiting.
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Likeminded Productions is immensely excited to announce our Opening Nights series of podcasts as grass roots theatres emerge from lockdown. For more than a year, theatres have been ghostly silent and now they are back with a vengeance as brand-new productions compete for audiences with shows held up during the pandemic.
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