The Clockmaker: Accumulated fragments of a troubling past that is never really there. A tall order for Stephen Massicotte and for the audience.
Jenny Young (Frieda) and Jonathan Wilson (Heinrich Mann). Photo: Kaufmann Photography.
The first thing one notices in this perfectly equipped theatre are the seats, placed on opposing sides of the performance space. They lengthen the long rectangular area in the middle, creating a back and forth movement of the eye. This is well suited to Stephen Massicotte’s interpretation of the nature of memory and its intricate relationship with the passage of time, all woven through a complex theatrical narrative involving a Clockmaker (Jonathan Wilson), a married woman Frieda (Jenny Young), a violent husband Adolphus (Brett Christopher) and a sinister interrogator (Gordon Bolan).