Two Sisters at The Lyceum

Writer David Greig and director Wils Wilon new play Two Sisters ahead of its world premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.

Transcript

00:00 Two Sisters is a comedy. It's about two sisters who go one weekend to the caravan park they

00:08 used to go to when they were young. Now they're grown up and they both have different reasons

00:13 for being there. And while they're there, their past and their youth catches up with

00:20 them. It's a story about who we think we're going to be when we're young, when we're 16,

00:26 and who we turn out to be and how we look back on our youth and how we look forward

00:31 to growing up. It's a melancholy comedy. It's all about family relationships. I often see

00:38 myself in both characters. This other element of the play, which there's a chorus of young

00:45 people and they're at the holiday park as well, they're on holiday, and they're hanging

00:50 out and they interact with the two sisters at very particular moments. But as well as

00:57 that, they have a relationship with the audience directly. They're really cleverly integrated

01:03 into the play. You sort of start to think about yourself when you were 16, what your

01:09 dreams were, what your hopes were, where you are now. So there's something about that journey

01:15 that I think is inherently really funny and also very moving at the same time. I think

01:21 it's funny because we've all made that journey and we all know that feeling and we all know

01:26 the disappointments and we all know the way we've let ourselves down from what our 16-year-old

01:31 self would have wanted. But at the same time, I think it's also very moving.

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