Three people in a broken picture frame, have three stories to tell, you just know at the start that somehow they are all going to intertwine but when you hear the first monologue from each you just can't see how. How will a women who is seeking a former pupil, who is about to abort her baby connect with a women who is seeking love and a man who just wants to show the world he can sing? Mark takes you on an incredible journey through a night of strange and fantastical occurrences; set in the streets to the skies of Dublin to the bowels of the Earth. The monologues are written in verse with quite a few samples of alliteration which brings pace and humour to an otherwise quite macabre story. To say it is in verse it is very natural and I think it adds to the Irish lilt of the narrators.
Terminus is a great feat of narrative writing and the three actors bring it to life - Catherine Walker, Declan Colon and Olwen Forere. Go and see for yourself it is playing until 9 July.
Photograph: Olwen Forere by Brett Boardman
