Actors & Writers London: The Boy on the Bridge by Gareth Pilkington

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The Boy on the Bridge by Gareth Pilkington To be read by awl on Monday 16th October 2006 The world's a fine place. It's the people that are the problem, isn't it? So it shouldn't be too hard to live happily as long as you keep them all at arm's length. And if you make it clear you don't want to know them, it's logical they won't want to know you. But what happens when someone appears for whom the rules of logic don't apply?
Jonjo early twenties: looks like a teenager, attractive, a dropout from Oxford Uni, a commitment phobe. Believes he has everything in his life sorted and rather despises those who haven't sorted theirs	Matthew Stathers
Linda late 30s to mid 40s, attractive, carries equal significance at two crucial points (the opening and after Ziggy has run away). A former social worker in an unhappy marriage who has almost adopted Ziggy	Stephanie Connell
Ziggy late teens but mentally rather younger, perhaps a sufferer of high level autism. Very literal and very innocent	Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Malc mid twenties, a garage mechanic turned wanderer with Jonjo believes he's god's gift to women but not bright enough for those he tries to pick up	Chris Bell
Kathy twenty: student of Durham Uni taking a year out who prefers her men to be a challenge	Fleur Wheeler
Directed by	Ian Buckley

In their own way each of the four secondary characters want a piece of Jonjo. The relationships are real but also have a symbolism. To Jonjo Linda is a parental figure in may ways, and Ziggy a child. Malc represents friendship and Kathy sexual dalliance, or maybe more. If you are being pulled in four ways, three have to be let go or you are torn apart.

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