Like A Fountain Troubled - A Tale of a Piece of Mind

Untamed Shrew Productions is proud to present a new play by Artistic Director of Untamed Shrew, Birmingham writer and director Victoria Grainger.

‘Like A Fountain Troubled ~ The Tale of a Piece of Mind’ is a two cast play starring Charlie Sanderson and Gillian Twaite, and debuts at The Old Joint Stock Theatre in Birmingham on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th July.

Untamed Shrew was established in 2006. Collaboration followed in 2007 on an Elinor D’Angelis production, ‘Here After’, a multi-media play for the Edmonton Fringe Festival in Canada, due to have UK dates later in the year. ‘Like A Fountain Troubled’ reunites Charlie and Gillian, who played opposite each other in the film element of ‘Here After’, in what is Victoria’s first solo full length play.

"A woman moved is like a fountain troubled. Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it." William Shakespeare

Alice disagrees. Alice is troubled. Alice is counselled once a week at eight o'clock. Dr Dot is her counsellor. Dr Dot is also troubled. Dot hates counselling.

'Like A Fountain Troubled' is Dot's counselling agency, open for business to help troubled women. Till now, she has been led to believe that women moved, are ‘like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick’, and therefore ‘bereft of beauty', remaining passive and subservient herself, and scared to tell the truth, even her own. Until she meets Alice ~ a woman moved who has come to Dot for help, and inadvertently to help.

Over the course of this ‘session’, Alice's counselling takes an unusual turn, as Alice and her 'transcendental therapist' Dot blur rules and boundaries, and by trying to get to the root of what is muddying the waters of their troubled fountains, question the very nature of memory, counselling and the counselled.

Tickets: £10