Paul T Davies reviews How To Keep Time A Drum Solo For Dimentia at Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe.
How To Keep Time: A Drum Solo for Dementia at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Photo: Stefan Wojcik How To Keep Time A Drum Solo For Dementia
Summerhall.
17 August 2018
5 Stars
Book Now Here is what you hope to find at the Edinburgh Fringe, a little gem tucked away, in danger of being missed. A show that will stay with you long after the Fringe is over.
Antosh Wojcik visits his grandfather in hospital and uses his voice and drum kit to explore the effects of dementia on speech, memory and family. A fusion of spoken word, drumming and theatre, the piece is infused with love. From his first memory of eating a gooseberry in his grandfather's garden, to an imagined future in a post metal nursing home, Antosh talks, remembers and drums to try and bring his grandfather back. It's original, tender, funny and moving.
Penned in the Margins have produced a wonderful piece, never mawkish, which demanded I find a quiet spot afterwards to sit down and remember my mum. Inspiring and original, this debut work deserves a bigger audience. See it to start your day, one of my Fringe picks so far.
BOOK NOW FOR DRUM SOLO FOR DEMENTIA.....
Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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