Slamming Door Collective has earned a reputation for pulling off ‘small miracles’
Though he may not be produced as much, or as well known, as contemporaries like Harold Pinter, British playwright Edward Bond remains a powerful presence in theatre. Tamara McCarthy was impressed enough by a production of The Sea to want to mount the 1973 Bond play with her company, Slamming Door Collective.“When I was first pitching this to people to get involved, they wouldn’t necessarily see it as a comedy,” said McCarthy, who is directing the play for Slamming Door.
“I was struck by the complexity of the characters, and how they swayed from a decision in one scene to a seemingly completely different response in the next,” said McCarthy, who saw a Shaw Festival production of The Sea in 2014. “I remember thinking, that’s actually what humans are like. The complex characters, the poetry of the piece, and the absolute ripping humour resonated with me for quite a while afterward.
“One of the reasons I came on is that I’d worked with Genevieve quite a lot over the past few years, but I hadn’t been onstage to act with her,” Calvert said. “Also, it gives me the opportunity to play roles that I would not be cast in other situations. I’m a Metis artist, so playing the vicar of a parish in East Anglia is not something you’d normally see me in. And I get to work two different dialects, an upper-class British dialect and lower-class East Anglia dialect.
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