BLUE SKY

Last night the audience for Blue Sky, a political thriller by Clare Bayley in Theatre 2 at the Sherman was very small but very appreciative. The play produced by Pentabus Theatre, a Shropshire based community theatre company was first performed at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in London last month. 'Blue Sky' investigates what might be happenening in the English countryside at the dead of night. Isolated airports,secret landings...' it asks the questions, How much do we really know about what our governments are involved in? And do we want to know-or is it easier to turn a blind eye?'
      The play follows the story being researched by an investigative journalist who uses her old friend and others to help her gain information for her scoop which involves the alleged kidnapping of an innocent British man in Pakistan by the CIA, who is taken to Jordan, interrogated by American and a British agent, and possibly tortured. We discover the journalist's own demons and morals that motivate her but leave her emotionally detached. Woven into her story is that of her friend,an old flame, and now a staid plane spotter with a history of radical politics and his relationship with his daughter, studying media at university, who is on a mission to learn more about her dead mother from El Salvador.
        The play is gripping, well performed, totally convincing, except for the couple getting it on towards the end-I saw no chemistry or tension building there. The simple set works well and the sound track adds to the action.
       Please go and support Pentabus. They have been so disapppointed with the small aaudiences.Tonight is the last night. It starts at 8pm.  See www.shermancymru.co.uk 029 2064 6900.