Mark Monahan
"At the opposite end of most Scales is Emily juniper's gripping little two hander. Here, a Jewish man (Peter Tilly), on a quest to find a painting looted by the Nazis from his grandparents, enters a German gallery and spots it on the wall.
He is overjoyed, but the pretty gallery assistant (Juniper) is reluctant to part with it, for reasons she soon reveals.
The piece evolves into both a serious-minded debate on the nature of art and a subtly charged tableau of two people suddenly being drawn to each other. If the climax only partly rings true, the candlelit monologues that explore the inner life of the painting itself are brave and rather mesmerising.
And, although it all feels temporally and thematically cramped at an hour in length (an extra 15 minutes would have let the whole thing breathe more easily), this is ambitious writing, lovingly played, and well suited to the sympathetic intimacy of the Roxy Art House."
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