Wick Theatre Company's trio of one-act plays provided varied entertainment set loosely around the theme of escaping.
In one, Our Man, the title referred to a battle-fatigued soldier embarking on his next mission. His fear, exhaustion and homesickness was seen through actors portraying his brain, mouth and sense of smell, sight and hearing.
Overlong, this promising idea soon turned to childishness and tedium. However, the play briefly came to life as tension built up when the solider came under fire.
After Midnight Before Dawn had characters, condemned for witchcraft, awaiting death. The Faustian theme of soul- selling had a neat twist in its tale. There were good performances from Mark Best, Hazel Starns and Tom Pearson. Inaudibility at times proved to be a problem and was not helped by the cast masking each other and having to speak upstage. The best offering, and sadly the shortest, was Over The Wall -- a whimsical piece about an island divided by an impregnable wall and a man's curiosity to get over it.
The antics of the four cast members, as they switched easily from character to character, provided the evening with some much-needed hilarity. Sophie Lane's GP was a hilarious comic gem.
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