My theatrical choices have been packed with irony this heatwave, as baking hot
fringe theatres are having to pass for some cold locations -
last night the Himalayas, tonight Alaska, where journalist David Holthouse's family moved in the
late 1970s. Although they didn't know anyone in Anchorage to start with, Nancy
(Glynis Barber) and Robert (Geoffrey Towers) quickly made friends with a local
couple, whose teenage son was happy to babysit the younger David while their parents
held dinner parties. In fact when he was seven, David (Gerard McCarthy) was raped by
the then 17-year-old son, whose name he refuses to use, only calling him the
Bogeyman (Mike Evans.) Written by Holthouse along with the show's director Markus
Potter,
Stalking the Bogeyman is a documentary play that does relive this
childhood trauma, but centres more on the adult David's desire for revenge.
