Derivatives

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Eight new short plays, with the cafe open all day and free cabaret/exhibitions.

The Edge even co-produced one show at the Bedlam with E.U.T.C., “Derivatives”, an idea of Donald Main and Stefan Jansen, consisting of short pieces of new work by new writers, scheduled together. Performed during the University Easter vacation, largely by E.U.T.C. actors, it provided a lasting memory of how well the Company can perfom new work. Particularly effective were Connal Morrison’s “ No Complaints “, with James Eastaway - also the lead in Morrison’s production “ King Lear playing a suicidal American convict, and “ Walnuts Are Nice Also”, by an Edinburgh - based American writer, Claudia Williams, with new female star of the Bedlam, Lucy Morgan and the consistently underrated Sandra McKay. The Edge crew converted the Bedlam from conventional staging to theatre-in-the-round during the twenty minute interval of “ Derivatives “ , using seating blocks borrowed from the Traverse Theatre.

Edinburgh’s Bedlam Theatre p.28