“There is Someone Who Hates Us”

“There is a surreal, dream-like edge to Michelle Ferreira’s 2011 play, produced by A Play, A Pie And A Pint with the National Theatre of Scotland in a new English version by Lynda Radley, that takes us deep into the conflicting rhythms of Scottish and Brazilian life, in a surprisingly short time. Cate hates Brazil and is ready to leave, but also comes to love something about the relative violence, lack of security, and absence of reliable civic structure that Maria takes for granted. By the end of the play, their relationship is in the balance; but given two rich, intelligent, serious and yet comic performances from Eilidh McCormick and Maria De Lima, all played out around the battered sofa in their flat, we can’t help suspecting that they will work something out; and that their personalities, like their countries, are more like twin parts of a whole, than opposites that can’t be reconciled.”

The Scotsman – Oran Mor, Glasgow