Wide Awake Hearts  

Playing at Little Mountain Gallery is “Wide Awake Hearts”, a production of Twenty Something Theatre and Hardline Productions.

The play revolves around four thoroughly unlikable characters identified in the program only as A, B, C and D.  A, a writer for TV and film is married to B, an actress.  C is a boyhood friend of A who has beencast in a film (written by A) that also features B.  D is the female editor of the film with some sort of link to C.

What transpires on stage is a largely incoherent exploration of their relationships punctuated by soporific monologues by the individual characters.  The Director’s Notes were unhelpful and unenlightening. 

A particular irritant was the lighting.  For most of the action it seemed to be designed to put as little light as possible on the performers while, at the same time, shining what light there was in the eyes of the audience making it even more difficult to see the action.

All in all, it was an evening wasted.