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Keith Macpherson and Scott Fletcher in Clutter Keeps Company Pic: Eamonn McGoldrick

18 February 2010 Northings

Clutter Keeps Company

By Davey Anderson. A Birds of Paradise review.

THIS is the second play on the trot in which writer Davey Anderson has used storytelling as his key technique. Like his spirited version of the adventures of Zorro at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre before Christmas, Clutter Keeps Company requires the actors to slip in and out of character and take turns as a narrator.

9 October 2007 Northings

Beneath You: Spider Girls are Everywhere

By Kathy McKean. A Birds of Paradise review.

IT takes a good story to turn a good idea into a good play. That's why Kathy McKean's ‘Beneath You’ never gets going. Her promising theme about the pressure on young women to share in the consumerist dream is merely that – a theme – and one that lacks a decent tale to make it dramatic.

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