Playfight – Roundabout @ Summerhall
Their meeting place, an ancient Oak tree, all our echoed inner pain, three girls, Zainab the earth, Keira the animal and Lucy, like a cloud with legs. So writes Julia Grogan in the Playfight script notes, which I could hardly just walk past after watching this fire cracker.
Summerhall’s crucible of dreams, the Roundhouse, is a perfect In the round venue for a play about the complexities of girlhood, which twists and turns following three fifteen-year-old school friends who spark off each other in multiple directions. Keira is the adventurous one and has just lost her virginity, on the tennis courts, doggy style, with an eighteen year old. Zainab is coming to terms with the idea that she might prefer girls, and Lucy floats along, struggling to balance her love of the church with her ...
