Lost Soul Music

C central    1-8, 11-15, 17-22, 24-25 @ 22.00    White Rose Theatre for Belt Up

We are invited into a space combining a Bedouin tent with a junk-filled attic and the atmosphere of a séance. Sofas, beds and easy chairs are the seating – get in early to avoid sitting on the floor! A real-time railway station clock hangs above the performance space, marking each minute of James Duckworth’s solo performance.  In this piece time is warped and bent in many ways, not least of which is ‘Tom’s’ 1930’s style of speech and manner, struggling to fit in with the society of 2004.

Tom’s great love, Rachel, is beautifully described and his obsession with her is delivered in a Stephen Fry-esque style, packed with wit and self-deprecations. The few songs echo the style of Coward’s patter-pieces and melancholy of unrequited love.

The description of today’s young men in particular had the audience laughing out loud: Tom’s dismisses the fashion for ‘fcuk’ t-shirts as ‘the sartorial equivalent of dyslexic tourettes’. One such fashion victim is Simon, Rachel’s lover.

Finding the mysterious Lost Soul Club for Gentlemen gives Tom the chance to be with Rachel, but at a price.

This is one of five stories being told by White Rose Theatre over the course of the Fringe.