Edinburgh Festivals

Fringe 2001

Resolution
Guy Masterton and Pip Utton

After an acclaimed collaboration on Adolf at the Fringe last year, director Guy Masterton and playwright/actor Pip Utton return this year with Resolution.

In a 70-minute monologue, Utton takes us inside the heads of a father whose 18-year-old daughter died three years ago in a car accident, and of the driver of the car that killed her and sped away. This work asks some interesting questions about the nature of justice, the morality of revenge, and the severe problems that would ensue from reorientating the legal system around the perspective of the victim.

Unfortunately there are few surprises in this study, which moves somewhat inevitably from a bereaved father who wants to forgive but can find in himself only hate, to a guilt-ridden driver who wants to be hated for his crimes as a route towards redemption. Although Utton's script is tight and his performance convincing, this year's offering is less original and less challenging than last year's Adolf.

The Scotsman Assembly