Your Turn to Clean the Stair, Tyldesley Little Theatre. Runs until Saturday: DARK secrets were revealed in a haunting performance of the psychological thriller Your Turn to Clean the Stair.
The hard working cast ensured that the production -- directed by Ian Taylor -- had everyone squirming in their seats in this disturbing thriller.
The play focuses on Lisa, played by an excellent Karen Ward, and her struggle to cope with life in an Edinburgh tenement building with her husband Brian, alias Mike Rimmer, who is too wrapped up in his own life to notice her misery. When Lisa goes to sleep, she begins to sleepwalk, and the line between reality and dreams becomes blurred as she battles with her inner demons.
She is joined on the tenement block by Mrs Mackie -- played by Margaret Speakes -- a lady obsessed with keeping the stairs outside their flats clean.
Hanna Nixon plays single mum Kay and Paul Beardsworth is Bobby, the loudmouth neighbour who everyone loves to hate, as all their lives become tangled together with disastrous consequences.
The lighting adds to the tense atmosphere, with an eerie red hue illuminating Lisa when she begins to sleepwalk.
The story reaches a crescendo as the audience tried to separate fact from fiction. A fine performance from all the TLT cast ensured that this was a compelling and must-see production.
Robert Johnson
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