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"When we Ran" performed by Patch of Blue at Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance

9th August 2017

A seven hander  with a sort of Ancient Greek style drama - a  chorus,  three musicians but the whole cast alsosing well in harmony.  This from the copany Patch of Blue who previously performed "By the Sea" and  a successful show Back to Blackbrick about dementia


We are in a hermetic commune located  where all the young people are children of Elah.  Modelled on some of the sect like,
The modern world is "Out" and the young people we encounter are happy in their diurnal regimen .  Like "The Beach" it is illness which the Elders try to conceal  which forces a braver young woman to look for assistance in the outland any maybe to find her mother who departed many years before.
The creepiness and the oppressiveness of "The Elders" who are never seen but who oversee the monotony of daily labour and curfew are well caught and the damaged horizons of the young now emerging into adulthood brought up to fear the outside.  Their encounter with the Outland turns out ot be benign (one wonders how true this might be in Trump's America)   The code required for hospital treatment is conveniently provided by a rapacious/generous ferryman (another echo of Greek tragedy)



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