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MARK KYDD |
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Plays by Mark Kydd |
Spain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Glasgow: Citizens Theatre, 119 Gorbals Street, Glasgow, G5 9DS >>> | 25 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | Glasgay | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849432307 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132327 | |||
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Genre: | play 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | by James Ley, co-created and performed by Mark Kydd. Part of Glasgay! Scotlands annual celebration of queer culture. The theme of self-indulgence unites the three plays in The Ego Plays collection. At the heart of each is a gay man asking a lot of questions& about himself. These questions range from scientififIc and philosophical musings to angst-ridden pleas for enlightenment. They come from men who have become so trapped in their own situations that they can no longer successfully connect with the outside world. Up is a play about despair, I Heart Maths is a play about love and Spain is a play about moving on. Together they present the cognitive processes of three men who have allowed personal problems to grow to monstrous proportions. In each of these plays excessive self analysisleads to the main characters taking desperate measures, though frequently also leading to humorous consequences. But while these plays are comedies, exploring the perils of taking oneself too seriously, they are not intended to be cruel. Instead they set their characters free by making their worst fears come true and then taking them somewhere new. | |||||
| You can't run away from your problems...but you can take them to nicer places. At 22, Ally relocated from Edinburgh to Gran Canaria and he's never looked back. He hasn't had time. He's been too busy enjoying himself. . . and other people. Lots of other people. In fact, in the twenty years he's been on the island he's averaged a man a week. But at 42 Ally is entering his promiscuous person's mid-life crisis. As he waits for the arrival of his latest gentleman caller, he finds a small memento that takes him back to his life in Scotland. Spain tells the story of an ex-pat Scot, thrown into an existentialist crisis and forced to begin a long journey home. | |||||
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