Two
Jim Cartwright |
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Etcetera Theatre, London, 2000 |
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Director: |
Robert Marsden |
Cast: |
Dominic Meir, Cara Sweeney |
Cartwright’s sharp, quickfire evocation of English pub life was brought to life for the London Fringe.
The action takes place in one night, in a pub, in the North of England and charts the dysfunctional relationship of ‘Landlord’ and ‘Landlady’, presiding over a public house full of colourful, tragic and intriguing characters. There’s Mr Iger, henpecked by his Led Zeppelin-loving wife; Fred and Alice who met at the ‘centre’, who enjoy their films and their pints; and the Boy who just “wants his dad”.
First performed at the Bolton Octagon in 1989, the Sunday Times called the play a ‘brilliantly, surrealistically and comically poetic’ piece, and the Bolton Octagon production won the Manchester Evening Best New Play Award and transferred to the Young Vic in London