To guarantee a good piece of theatre, you only need a few key elements. This doesn't mean it's easy: truly good theatre is a special thing – but this play, a debut piece by writer/director Jesse Briton, has everything needed to make the kind of theatre I love.
The first key ingredient is a good, strong, clear setting. Set on a fishing trawler off the coast of Devon, the atmosphere for this production is created entirely with a simple wooden floor, some sand, and occasionally a table, chairs and single, swinging lightbulb. Sonically, this setting is added to hugely affectively with a collection of beautiful, guttural, rousing sea-shanties, sung by the cast of six men in the dark through each brief scene change.
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