THE
HASTY HEART
Directed by
Mike Tunstall
NODA Review
How refreshing it was to see a play with
eight males and only one female. The set was good, you
really thought you were in a military hospital in the
1940s. All the five war wounded patients were completely
different, each one with a different accent. All the parts
had been well cast.
Yank (Gil Riley) was a very convincing American. Tommy
(Alan Pearson) was a real British Tommy. Kiwi (Andrew
Stagles) made a good youn New Zealander. Digger tGordon
Fraser) was the typical Australian. Blossom (Maurice
Adesing) played the coloured boy, and although he didn't
have many lines his acting made up for that. He really made
you feel that he didn't speak the same language and he
couldn't understand what the other patients were talking
about.
I understand he was a new boy, and another new boy was Gil
Riley who sustained his American accent throughout. The
fifth patient Lachlen (David O'Brien) was the Scotsman, who
gave a very convincing performance, especially when told he
was terminally ill. The only female, again a newcomer, was
Ann Segar who Flayed the Red Cross nurse with Pots of
sincerity, and falls in love with the dying man.
The whole play was very moving and most enjoyable, it
certainly made one realise how the hospitals had improved
over the past 50 years. Well done, Chorley
