006 Contemporary Drama – Old
Boots on the Ground by
Don Webb, originally from 2013, was an excellent play that kept me guessing,
with a truly ambiguous central character, and Lee Ingleby really got to show
off his skills. I’m struggling to
summarize the story. A military side
project testing facility is eager to finish its latest sets of tests with good
data so that the main scientists can go off to plummy jobs in California, based
on the strength of their research. Their
put-upon research assistant, single mother Joni (Gillian Kearney), feels
underrated. Marks, a very good soldier,
comes in as part of the tests—but with an ulterior agenda. He is searching for his vanished friend—or is
he? Well-made and very intelligent drama. Directed by Gary Brown, it starred Malcolm
Raeburn, Sue Kelly, Jonathan Keeble, and Greg Wood.
The intrigue just kept coming with The Second Son by Peter Whalley, also from 2013. Robert (Jason Doane) attends his mother’s
funeral, and his fiancée Laura suggests that maybe he should get back in touch
with his estranged father, Henry.
Against his will, Robert phones up his father’s business to let him know
that his mother has died. He finds
himself talking to Bob (Stephen Fletcher), who claims to be his father’s
son—and his mother’s. That would make
them brothers—or doubles? Laura (Gillian
Kearney), a journalist, can’t keep her nose out, and through subterfuge meets
Henry, Bob, and Henry’s partner Elaine.
Eventually she convinces Robert to come with her. Chaos is created when Robert explains who he
is. What happens next? It also starred
David Fleeschman and Denise Black and was directed by Pauline Harris. It was quite a dose of Gillian Kearney we had
in Quarter 4.
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