Written & Directed by Kenny Burnham

They’ll Get You Now You’re Gone

An architect strives to make a name for himself by reluctantly following the only path he knows: that of his boss, wilfully ignoring the consequences.  Two women meet at a gallery which is holding an exhibition celebrating the evolution of their working class locale. In the end is their beginning.

CAST:

Lydia: Mira Vasiliu
Damon: Bruce Biddulph 
Mediator 1, Barbara: Julia Keyes 
Mediator 2: Jean Kane 
Mediator 3, Ellen: Emily Kenny 

Mira Vasiliu 

Graduated from Acting Coach Scotland and performed Hello/Goodbye with Scottish Youth Theatre. 

Jean Kane 

On-screen credits include The Constant Companion and Still Game, and Glory at the Tramway. 

Julia Keyes 

Credits include Tope Girl, Strawberries in January, Billy Liar and Little Women. 

Emily Kenny 

Credits include The Haunted Hunt and Ghosts of the Castle at the Edinburgh Festival. 

Bruce Biddulph 

Writer and performer whose credits include Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Arnott's The Inquisitor. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Imagery, visualisation & arrangement: Kirsty May Hamilton 

OVERVIEW & CONTEXT:

Can we be co-opted by unseen forces to act against our best interests?

Opposition and protest...assimilated by postmodernism in all its forms. 

Emancipated from the slums by modernism after the war, people slowly became ghosts in the 'machine for living'. Then, emancipated from the hierarchy of the workplace by postmodernism in the 1980s, people became ghosts in the 'machine for working' with a fear of returning to the slums. The characters in the play mean no ill and wish only a better life for themselves. The postmodern capitalist culture has encouraged a man to pursue happiness through acquisition of status, and two women to recapture the happiness they once shared. Their lives have value...which can be redeemed for the price of a ticket. 

Imagery, Visualisation & arrangement: Kirsty May Hamilton