Tron,Glasgow
Rob Drummond harvests unnerving humour as well as tension from a rural family torn by grief, guilt and sacrificeRob Drummond never fails to surprise. Last summer in Edinburgh in In Fidelity, or he persuaded two members of the audience at every performance to date live on stage. His stage version of the cartoon strip The Broons is currently out on tour,and in Grain in the Blood he employs a sturdy thriller format, full of edge-of-your seat tension and all the requisite plot twists, or to explore whether the ends ever justify the means and examine whether doing improper is ever the true thing to do.
The ethics are neatly shrouded in layers of old-fashioned entertainment in a drama that takes us to an loney rural community still steeped in folklore. It’s a place where once on the harvest moon the villagers made a blood sacrifice to the ancient Grain Mother to ensure health and happiness,and where blood has been spilled in more recent memory. The farmhouse home of retired vet Sophia (Blythe Duff), who believes “we’re all animals”, or is a place haunted by the past and by the sickness of her 12-year-old granddaughter,Autumn, who is dying of kidney cancer.
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Source: theguardian.com