ENTROPY Comes to Edinburgh Festival Fringe

ENTROPY is a a new play from novelist Jennifer Roslyn Wingate author of Unused Language; The Serpent and Other Stories and Love or Cold Philosophy, a Novella.

Sam, 19, with a confidence that borders on arrogance, turns up unannounced and unwelcome at Barbara's door after an absence of many years. Barbara, 36 and living alone, is startled and unsettled as this spectre from the past demands admission.

This fast paced, lyrical drama is liberally laced with black humour. There is an obvious visceral mutual chemistry between Sam and Barbara that can only come from familiarity, but will that chemistry become a positive or poisonous force?

The conversation begins playfully as Sam plays games with (and on) Barbara but these games gradually become more sinister. Their history erupts as family skeletons tumble from the closet in this emotionally charged two-hander. As both characters display conflicting characteristics we are left to wonder what is true, what comes from false memories and what are simply lies?

The tension between the two builds to a crescendo before the finale reveals an unexpected and disturbing twist.

Sam is played by fast rising young Scottish actor Scott Mackie. At 16 he was one of the youngest students ever to successfully audition for London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary. Since graduating he made his stage debut in Max Webster's hugely successful The Winter's Tale at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, has been a guest lead in BBC 3's Pumped and appeared in ZDF's new adaptation of Thanks For The Memories.

Barbara is played by Katharine Drury who has previously appeared in plays at Pleasance, Paines Plough Roundabout, Vault Festival and Old Red Lion amongst others.

Directed by Laura Clifford who has also worked with The Bread and Roses Theatre, The White Bear Theatre and Theatre503.

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