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Tryst Theatre's Rhona McColl Is Mad!

Mar 19, 2022
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Rhona's slavish admiration for her literary hero F.S. McDade is clear from this picture.

Even though everyone knows he is a total plonker, her love for the talentless mediocrity who penned such mince as “Pass the Buns, Dolly” and “Dimples” is limitless. She’s deluded, he’s rubbish.

And that’s basically the story at the heart of Tryst's hilarious new comedy, Writer’s Cramp by John Byrne, which runs in Falkirk’s Behind the Wall April 25-29.

It’s the latest offering by Tryst which cleverly links fun theatre with eating and drinking. What’s not to like?

The idea is: you turn up at Behind the Wall, with your £12 ticket giving you a pizza, a drink…and an hour-long play to cheer you up in these difficult times.

Rhona plays the lovestruck Narrator who is a key member of the Nitshill Writing Circle. In the play, they meet to honour their late lamented mentor McDade and tell his pathetic life story – from stealing bike pumps at school to writing poems on toilet paper in jail. Failure is McDade’s middle name (actually it’s Seneca but you get the idea). And the failure is really funny.

Joining Rhona in this zany laugh-out-loud romp are Tryst stalwarts Jim Allan, Alan Clark and Brian Paterson. Onstage they are like demented jugglers keeping the balls in the air…as they effortlessly change characters, clothes, accents, props, locations and even scenery in seconds.

It’s mad…just like Rhona!

Writer’s Cramp will run in Behind the Wall from April 25-29. Tickets, priced £12, are going fast and are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/trysttheatre