The Wire - Side Effects

By Morna Pearson. An outspoken and uncompromising play by an award-winning young Scots writer that explores the relationship of Rachel, 15, and her 17-year-old cousin - a relationship based on desire for escape from their empty lives in rural Aberdeenshire. Rachel's life is transformed, root and branch, when she swallows an apple pip and discovers a new way of living. Rachel ...... Ashley Smith James ...... Gary Collins Music by Pippa Murphy Directed by Lorne Campbell.