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Reviews One4Review.com Anyone reading my reviews knows I admire those performers who can carry a show on their own shoulders. You will also be aware of my admiration for director and performer Guy Masterson. O Martha gave a very sensitive performance of a woman who not only talked to the tailors dummies in her design studio but gave each of them personalities to match the different traits for the moods she goes through. It was performed with such passion and reality that most women in the room identified closely with her on several occasions. The powerful emotions poured into the performance leaves her physically shattered at the end. The combination of amazing performer, superb scripts and great direction is what keeps me coming back to these shows time after time. This one is no exception it is a powerful piece of theatre extremely well performed. OnStage Scotland Samantha is a dress designer. She's also a mistress, the mistress of her best friend 's husband. Nor is he her first man, not by a long chalk. But he is the one who triggers her guilt. As she waits for his promised phone call, or his letter to say it's all over, she frantically scrawls dress designs on the brown paper that covers the floor. She also writes guilt cheques to some of the many charities that demand her attention. And she faces the many silent accusations of her three dressmaker's dummies. Arnold Wesker's lava flow of a play pours out in an ever more frantic avalanche of words, fueled by guilt, chocolate and Jack Daniels. It needs total command of instant mood switches and precise changes of tone and emotion. It certainly gets all of that from Australian actress Martha Lott, starting composed and elegant, ending exhausted and drained. Guy Masterson's direction ensures that her prowling, her obsessive sketching and cheque writing, her direct addresses to the audience, all engage us with her disturbed inner life, and never detract from it. This is one of those power-house solo shows that the Fringe is so good at showcasing. Now funny, now disturbing, Martha Lott delivers one of those emotional roller-coasters that won't let go of you. > The Mistress at Edinburgh Fringe 2007
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nce again there are numerous shows under the Guy Masterson banner. The first of which I was able to see is "The Mistress" performed by Martha Lott and directed by Guy himself. resident companies | fringe | sponsors | contact us