Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 71/2/10
Cast: Darren Pritchard, Helen Turner, Paul Taylor, Zoe Vaux.
Writer: Tom Critch.
Time has a habit of playing tricks on you. What can seem, through the eyes of a 17 year old a bedroom like palace with more space than you know how to fill, 26 years later you wonder when seeing that room again, just how you got every possession you owned in the cramped, confined plot you called a bedroom. What happens though when you allow your eyes access to time and consent it to see things that aren’t there, that somehow accepts time to play a trick on your perception of the scene playing out in front of you? For those who made their way to the Gregson Institute, Tom Critch’s play, Then and Now, did exactly that and for such a young writer, Tom Critch nailed it on the head with such accuracy it positively glowed in the sparks that followed.