Some times all your Christmasses really do come at the same time. After having waited since the end of June for another Philip Ridely monologue to appear online, two come at the same time. Posted on the Tramp website (wearetramp.com) and their YouTube channel, these monologues are free to watch, and are absolutely worth the so doing.
In this piece, director Wiebke Green takes us on a sad and tragic journey. A girl (Yanexi Enriquez) is a young member of a local church choir, and despite not being religious, she enjoys the songs they sing and the social life the choir offers. However, there is Miss McNair, the choir leader who on one trip out with her, accidentally takes her passed the place where it happened.
Roland was a member of the choir too, and we are left to assume that she was in love with him, and he had a tragic accident, and she is finding it difficult without him.
Sympathetically handled although, listening to the dialogue, I had the feeling that the protagonist in this story was a teenager, and despite Enriquez's youthfulness, gave the monologue a certain maturity that a younger person wouldn't have done.
Reviewer - Matthew Dougall
on - 24/10/20
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