Out of Touch – Tobacco Factory Theatre
Out of Touch
FairGround Theatre
Tobacco Factory Theatre
Wednesday 1st – Sunday 05 July 8 pm
Once again the Tobacco Factory has managed to pull yet another stonkingly brilliant show out of the bag by inviting the FairGround Theatre Company to perform their new work ‘Out of Touch’.
This performance consisted of a trilogy of polished and quirky one-act plays all connected through the theme of death, memory and time, following three different couples in three very different relationships.
Tide, the first play was about a chance meeting of two teenagers on a beach by the sea. An insolent and non-reactive teenage girl meets a guy who has recently lost his mother to the sea. The first few minutes of the play seemed pretty normal, almost amateurish until the play takes a very weird lurch. Before you know it we are witnessing something dark and unnatural. This is a play about a case of mistaken identity and the game of finding love.
The second piece Magpie, explores how lost love can destroy a middle-aged marriage. This was also a dark and twisted little tale with echos of Roald Dahl’s own twisted stories. We meet two characters Edward and Mary, who are the result of not marrying your true love. This play had some fantastic lines that ring true to the tribulations of being in a relationship.
Being led into a false sense of security with the two previous dialogue heavy plays, I was totally blown away by the brilliant fast paced, well staged ‘Where you can’t follow’. The play was a dance choreographed with short dialogue and much movement. This was a time travel madness of enduring love and learning to live with loss and change. The two main characters can already see the end of their relationship but have only just met. This is a clever, very twisted, very warped play. It gently gives the audience more and more clues about the characters and the pain and torment that they might or will go through. Perhaps Doctor Who would call this time in flux.
FairGround is an up and coming theatre company that describes themselves as “fair but brutal, grounded but dreamers, we believe in make believe, but we don’t like liars.” This company has achieved a visually exciting piece of theatre. See them now before it costs you an arm, leg and a kidney.