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[Scal]

Hello

Did anyone get to see the readings at the Bush last week?  If so what did you think? I have a vested interest in one of them - a friend did The Guys.  I'm personally involved so would love to hear an objective opinion, if there is one!

Ta

Scal x

[chip]

I saw Brothers In Arms, the late David Halliwell's last play.  It was about the first meeting between a middle aged jazz guitarist and a jazz journo (who'd often written about his career) in an Oxfordshire pub.  During the meeting they do - or don't (it was unclear) - realise they not only met but fought when both were teenage football hooligans, the guitarist crippling any chance the journo might have had to become a musican himself.

93 very short scenes interweaving the pub meeting (in reverse chronological order) with a hostile exhange between the two characters playing their teenage selves.  Formally daring but, as Mike Bradwell wrote in the programme notes, probably unstageable.  As ever with Bush readings, though, very well directed and performed.

[El Peter]

I didn't see it although reading that short account of 'Brothers in Arms', it seems like an intriguing play-idea. I might well have attended if I'd realised that such a play reading was on, and I'd certainly have been interested in seeing it staged.