Trio - by James Saunders (1964)First performance by the Traverse Theatre Company, Edinburgh, Autumn 1967. Characters in order of appearance are -
© 1968 James Saunders published by Andre Deutsch, (London, England), 1968 (Neighbours and other plays - James Saunders) ISBN-10: 0233960309 ISBN-13: 978-0233960302 also contains Neighbours + Triangle + Alas, Poor Fred + Return to a City + A Slight Accident + The Pedagogue © 1968 James Saunders published by Heinemann Educational Books, (London, England), 1968 (Neighbours and other plays - James Saunders) ISBN-10: 0435237861 ISBN-13: 978-0435237868 also contains Neighbours + Triangle + Alas, Poor Fred + Return to a City + A Slight Accident + The Pedagogue commentary by Ronald Hayman Trio: three musicians going theough tthe motions of farce to savage ends. - (inside cover, Andre Deutsch, 1968) Trio was one of a series of sketches written in 1964... It's about a performance in front of a public. It keeps getting interrupted and the cellist's joke of aiming his bow like a rifle at a noisy aeroplane is developed into more elaborate visual jokes as the musicians are beseiged by real or imaginary insects. There is some clowning with a fly-spray, and sound-effects are added in as we get bursts of machine-gun fire from the violin and the cello is used as an anti-aircraft gun. - Ronald Hayman (from the commentary, Heinemann, 1968) |