Our culture is obsessed with celebrity.  If you take a look at any news stand in Scotland, it’s guaranteed that you will find 6 or 7 different magazines all reporting the same but different versions of gossip in tinsel town.  The pressure to be young, beautiful and decadent seeps out of the glossy pages.  Copies fly off the shelf of the latest news about glamorous people that live miles away from us, who we don’t know and whose lives differ from own so dramatically.  Why, then, would we be interested in reading such rubbish?  Escapism.

Yellow Moon takes us on the journey of Lee (Andrew Scott-Ramsay) and Leila (Nalini Chetty), two teenagers on the run from the murder in their home town of Inverkeithing.  Lee feels the only way he can get ahead in modern society is to make money from a life of crime and ‘Silent’ Leila spends in Friday nights in Tescos’ toilets, fantasizing about the beautiful people and cutting herself with disposable razors.  They begin their journey to the north of Scotland to find someone who can help them: Lees’ absent father Dan, the former ‘hard man’ of Glasgow.

Performed upstairs in the Circle Studio, David Greigs’ charming script comes alive with the barest of necessities.  Virtually no props, no lighting design, four chairs and four actors take the audience into the world of Yellow Moon.  Brechts’ influence is laced through the play as the actors provide comic and often touching narrative.  Guy Hollands’ direction plunges us headfirst at a frantic pace into their world.  The actors expertly dive into their roles with gusto and out again to present their story.  Chetty and Scott-Ramsay are both tender and convincing as the tearaway couple with Beth Marshall and Keith Mcpherson providing great support.  All of the characters crave an escape from their lives only to realise that they never can truly runaway.  A little gem upstairs at the Citz, that you’d be a fool to let escape you.

Citizens’ Theatre Circle Studio  (0141 429 0022)
29th Sept- 14th Oct

Touring Schools and Colleges 
23th Oct – 11th Nov