Cotton Wool Kid
Cotton Wool Kid is a roller coaster of emotions, a tenderly crafted story that is happy to turn the audience upside down without warning. A story of love and loss, where things can change in a moment, where the unlikely is plausible, yet the story is completely believable.
A young woman (an excellent and engaging Emily Rose Brennan) waits in an emergency room, after being run over by a paramedic (an outstanding performance by Ben Mortley). The accidental meeting turns to romance, in a beautiful run of narrative, there is marriage, finding a home, a baby, then a growing child. Then the child disappears.
Wonderful relationship building from Emily Rose Brennan and Ben Mortley, expertly supported by a chameleon performance by Morgan Owen, playing dozens of people.
Cotton Wool Kid is the product of the Black Swan Emerging Writers Group - a wonderful script by Zoe Hollyoak, that is bittersweet, dealing with tragedy but remaining warm, and at times very funny. This production has the writer in the director’s chair, and she has steered her cast towards some amazing storytelling that engages its audience.
Simply set, with designer Reinette Roux’s seemingly hand-drawn light box back drops, a wonderful way of setting scenes.
A feel-good production with a script that deserves more life. A pleasure to experience.
Kimberley Shaw
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