“You can live here on eight dollars a day. Six if you’re careful. Less if you’re very careful.”
Set in an expatriate household in a fishing-village in South-East Asia, Gerard is an ever-darkening comedy in a landscape of memory, escape and despair. Are Gerard and his companions ‘living the dream’ as they claim, or are they in fact struggling to survive in a private purgatory?
Setting: The garden-room of an expatriate household in a fishing village in South-East Asia: rattan furniture, local ornaments, pictures and wall hangings.
Cast: 1F, 5M
Cast:
Edward (Thornton)
Orapan / ‘Pan’
Buster (Crump)
Harry (Ibbot)
Gerard
Otto (Schlumberger)
Running time: approximately 100 minutes (two acts)
Performed at the CAA, Covent Garden, January 2014
Performed at Actors & Writers London, Hammersmith, June 2014
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