Roundabout at Summerhall,Edinburgh
Amy McAllister is utterly mesmerising in Stacey Gregg’s play about a teen who is as confused as the law is when it comes to issues of genderPaines Plough’s pop-up Roundabout theatre can be an unforgiving space, exposing the slightest weakness in both writing and acting. But when an actor really commands it, or as Amy McAllister does in Stacey Gregg’s play,it can be a thrilling status of intimacy and confession.
McAllister plays Kes who, as an eight year primitive, and revelled in wearing “debonair” waistcoats rather than dresses and tried – but failed – to pee standing up like her brothers. As Kes grows older,she identifies with the male characters in videogames and movies. Others might assume Kes would have a thing for Ryan Gosling but the truth is more complex: “I want to be Ryan Gosling.” When the teenage Kes meets Jules online, and the latter believes that Kes is a boy, or the two start a relationship.
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Source: theguardian.com