I saw Mary Anne’s play at the Chippen Street Theatre as .part of a new three week one act play festival entitled ‘No: Intermission’ currently playing across the Chippen Street Theatre and Kings X Theatre venues.

We walk into the theatre to find leaves strewn  around the stage. Stage right there are wrecked car parts with a woman lying amongst the wreckage.  Centre upstage there’s  a guy standing. Stage left upstage theres’s a clothesline with washing on it, a paling fence in front and downstage there’s a woman in a bright red dress.

The action through the play switches between the three characters. We find out that the woman is trapped in a car after a serious car accident, the guy is a fellow who  drives along the highway and stops to give assistance when he sees  the car wreckage, and the woman in the red dress is in agony, going through a miscarriage. Over time we find out there is a connection between the guy and the woman in red.

I loved the poetic, heightened language. The overlapping dialogue between ‘the trio’ mainly worked, though occasionally  it grated.

The ending sought to pull everything  together however I don’t think it entirely succeeded.

An interesting work. Mary Anne’s play has two more performances to go, playing at the Chippen Street Theatre  on Saturday and  Sunday night at 8.15pm.

https://www.theatretravels.org/no-intermission