It really is a must see

Hello everyone Yes I know people in the show, but I don't think it matters one way or the other. I took my upper school students to see the opening night of this show and you know you have a fantastic piece of theatre , when the show was all they could talk about during the interval and all the way back to the college afterwards . One of my year 12 boys said " Miss, that was the best piece of theatre I have ever seen" . High praise indeed from a 16 year old boy. I am also running a men's project for the ITA and one of our participants also came along on the opening night. He also can't stop talking about it, said it was amazing. At our last workshop session he was constantly saying how fantastic it was and that everyone needed to see it etc. and my opinion of the show? Well , it is one of my favourite pieces of theatre. I cried when I saw it for the first time done at the Hole in the Wall and this production also made me cry. It is a truly beautiful piece of writing and it does need three very skilled and very talented men to do it justice and obviously a director who understands the piece. I was just so thrilled to see this show and to watch the skill and the ability of the three men on stage and to see the talent and the thought that the director had so lovingly used in the piece. Please see it. It is just beautiful. Kerri

01st October 2010 The West Australian - Stephen Bevis Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Lawson Productions) Old Mill Theatre It begins and ends with the disabling, interrogative glare of lights shone into the audience. In between is an intense, immersive look at the experience of three westerners chained for months on end in a dark, decrepit Beirut rooms. At 110 minutes, this play could have been psychological torture for viewersbut this production by Peter Clark was one out of the box, conveying the despair, fear, defiance and absurdity swirling around the trio held by their unseen captors ................... All three actors are terrific (Kingsley Judd, Stephen Lee begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, David Gregory, though Judd shines as theyalternate between episodes of wacky, escapist storytelling to ease their boredom, enraged bullying and moments of touching tenderness. Clark and his actors do well to bringout the Beckett-style comedy and dark feelings in the script. This is a powerful study into how (in) tolerance of all kinds starts at home and how the imagination can either entrap people or set them free. Someone Who'll Watch Over Me ends tomorrow (02nd October 2010)

Intense show for a captive audience

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