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Iron Brew - One4Review

Far from home facing the reality of your own mortality, no family no close friends and no boyfriend, admittedly the relationship finished some time ago. Trish (Victoria Johnston) is sitting in a wheelchair on a hospital roof in Vancouver, Canada counting the stars.  Her best friend Susie (Hayley Rudd) has traveled half way round the world to be with her bringing a bottle of Iron Brew. After discussing the things that have happened since they last, met Trish takes Susie around the sights of her Glasgow childhood from her house to Sauchiehall Street, from the museums to the shops and from the swimming pool where she learned to swim to Loch Lomond.  They decide that after they finish counting the stars in they will count the bubbles in a bottle of Iron Brew.   Victoria Johnston puts in a very creditable performance as Trish. Although her energy levels fluctuate during the performance, I felt they did not fade as someone in her situation would.  When recalling landmarks from her youth she brings these descriptions over very creditably, so much so I thought she were back home in Scotland.  Her probable feelings of pent up anger and frustration, turn to bewilderment at times and although this comes out in the speeches occasionally the body language said something different. Hayley Rudd as Susie is a very good foil for Victoria, but I would have liked to have seen more anger in the character. I know how I would have felt if my best friend were ill and didn’t seem to be fighting.  ***

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