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Sparkleshark
Philip Ridley’s tale of adolescent relationships and power struggles was Wharfingers’ March 2005 production. A story about adolescents performed by adolescents. Hmmmm. Some members were sceptical at the first read through, but they changed their minds when they began to appreciate that it was poignant rather than patronising, emblematic rather than embarrassing. True, it does deal with some real life issues, but when escapism meets the cold, hard reality of teenage gangland, there’s no competition. Escapism has to win.
Here’s how the story goes. High up on a tower block roof,
quiet introvert Jake writes stories in secret to escape his troubled
adolescent existence. Shunned by the other boys as weird, he is
accepted by the girls; one in particular, Polly, who thinks that
he and his stories are cool. Just how cool his next story will have
to be to save him from being dropped over the edge by his adversaries,
he is soon to find out.(more)
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Rehearsal.....
Two one act plays, Friday 27th and Saturday 28th June 2008.
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