'Ambiguity is key and Watts's own direction extracts it well. Natalie Burt is brittle and manipulative as Merry, while Andrew Harrison finds a predatory glint in the benign master.' TIME OUT
First Light
Written and directed by Murray Watts
Cast: Natalie Burt, Andrew Harrison, Joanna Hole and Laurence Kennedy
Tom is overwhelmed by grief. His wife has died and despair is smothering his characteristic optimism and good humour. At 3am, on his last night as house-master at a boarding school, there is a knock at the door and schoolgirl Merry walks into his living room. FIRST LIGHT is a timely dissection of trust where innocence and scandal collide.
First Light is the London Premiere of a play first seen at the Edinburgh Playhouse venue on the Fringe 2011.
'Performances which astonish... Natalie Burt is electrifying... First Light will remain with the audience long after they leave the theatre.' Edinburgh Spotlight ****
Andrew Harrison and Natalie Burt are . excellent the merest hint of sexual tension is compelling Scotsman
Utterly gripping Tychy at The Fringe