20:20 A VISION
October 1990
 

"Youth Theatre makes it’s Marx for the future"  Top

Members of Cumbernauld Youth Theatre present their vision of a post-apocalyptic battle of the sexes at the theatre next week.

“20/20 a Vision” runs at the theatre from October 25 to 27.  Youth Theatre members Tony Keirnan, Michael Ahearn and Michael Leonard wrote the play from an original idea by Tony Keirnan.

Set in the future, the action takes place in a world where there is nothing left to fight for.  Utopia has been achieved on earth.  But the balance is destroyed by the arrival of Kylie, who sets up her own faction in the belief of the superiority of women over men.

Among the other citizens of this bizarre future world are the Marx brothers, who have a penchant for rearranging peoples knees with a power drill.

This plot strand posed a few problems as Tony Keirnan relates:  “We can’t have stage blood, because it’s too hard to clean up.  So I suppose we’ll have to fill a few bags up with tomato sauce…”

Tony describes the show as a musical comedy with Overtones of Greek tragedy.

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