TREATMENT
Moore seems to think his play is an unconventional work about ideas, pitting the nihilism of the skinheads’ creed against the more hopeful humanism of the British middle class. In fact, the play is a conventional morality tale that could have been lifted from half a dozen social melodramas of the 1950s.
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Alain St. Borges and Philip R. Smith are absolutely convincing as the skinhead brothers Liam and Rory. St. Borges in particular turns in a wonderful performance as the more poetic brother Liam. His monologue describing a street-gang battle in Chelsea could easily be one of the best monologues I’ve heard all year. Joy Gregory looks the part of Julia, though her performance is somewhat restrained and inexpressive next to St. Borges and Smith. She also seems a little too mousy to be playing with cats as ferocious as Liam and Rory. Raymond Fox makes Father Michael a perfectly believable, if somewhat innocent priest.
