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Gutted Film and Theatre Company in association with Giant Olive Theatre Company presents

 

Fragile

Based on a story by Lance Nielsen and Angela Thomas.

Featuring music by the late Kelly Groucutt of the Electric Light Orchestra.

11th - 27th June 2010

Friday and Saturdays at 4pm

Sundays and Mondays at 7.30pm

For a full list of dates and times at The Landor Theatre and the Lion & Unicorn please click here.


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‘Is that what you think would have happened?’

Angela wants her friend Stephen to help her write a book. She has not seen her family in twenty five years and wants everyone to understand why. Stephen is adopted and recently met his biological mother for the first time – it was not what he was expecting and he now feels his adoption may have impacted on him as an individual far more than he previously thought. How much of where we came from determines who we are later in life? Is blood really thicker than water? As Stephen and Angela begin explore the past events of both their lives, what is truth and what is fiction?

As the trust between these two friends grows, the past begins to reveal the scars it has left in their present and the fragile state of both of their lives is all too apparent. As they explore their past can they give each other what is missing or are the stakes of losing such a friendship too high to risk? Perhaps the answers lie for both of them in the journey they must take together to write the book…..

Fragile in reality is the only play, written in part by the late Angela Thomas who tragically passed away at the age of 42 in July of 2009. At the time of her death Lance Nielsen and Angela were working together on writing both her biography on her life, and a play that would explore similar issues to the book, but would be a work of fiction allowing her a greater sense of freedom with the story. Angela would have taken the lead role in the play and it was her intention for the whole experience to be a cathartic journey, enabling her to tackle the issues she wanted to explore.

So for the first, and possibly the only time, the Company presents the work of Angela Thomas and the story she wanted to tell, to the extent that we are able to tell it, without her.

‘The greatest honour and trust a person can bestow upon you, is to ask for you to be the voice for them in their absence. In this case the fear is that one might fail to do them justice.’

Lance Nielsen March 1st 2010

 

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