Performances

Chapter, Cardiff Tues 17 Feb 2009, 8pm – £3 on the door

The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:30pm – £3

The Riverfront, Newport Thur 19 Feb 2009, 7:45pm – £4

Cast

Lily – Carli De’La Hughes

Fin – Danny Grehan

Trecci – Dewi Savage

Detective – Tony Leader

Director

Michael Kelligan

Review

Michael Kelligan’s new “On The Edge” season kicked of at Cardiff’sChapter Arts Centre with a world premiere – a script-in-hand reading of “Solitude”, a new play from Dic Edwards, one of Wales most erudite and provocative dramatists. Inspired by the life and work of Alexander Trocchi, it’s a self-consciously writerly tale of sex, drugs and death amongst low-life poets, full of epigrams, allusions and bizarre motifs. Very clever, and well acted – with Carli De’La Hughes, Danny Grehan and Dewi Savage as the protagonists, and Tony Leader as the police officer who is eventually called in to inject a dose of reality – but since one of the central themes is shattered innocence, we are forced to wallow, somewhat, in the self-serving unpleasantness of the deluded amoral artist, which leaves a bit of a bad taste, which is probably the intention.

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