Ripcord : disturbingly outrageous popular theatre where comedy and tragedy intersect.
Ripcord with Sharron McGuirl and Jane Morris
David Lindsay-Abaire in his earlier works, was a master of television style sit-coms and Ripcord immediately sets us on this track. A clear-cut situation with types who obey the personality clues that the author sends our way right from the beginning when director Riley Stewart’s lively music captures our imagination as we picture two women of a certain age dancing gayly to a sprightly Latin American rhythm. Needless to say, the music immediately creates an uneasy opposition between Andréa Vecsei’s beautiful pastel coloured warm looking room in a seniors’ home where all seems to be snugly comfortable and loveable, and the viscious tension burning between the two principles of the show. …