Not More Than One Hour marks the first collaborative project of Thin Ice and Rhymes with Purple Productions, two Glasgow based theatre companies that have come together to produce a new and innovative piece of Scottish writing. In a society where not even a conversation with another human being can last more than one hour how can a relationship survive? When all you hear is radio ga-ga and internet go-go, when inundated with News Report Tragedy and the constant and less than subtle threat of total Bush Related Annihilation it’s easy not to notice that your relationship is crumbling down around you, just like your patience with red tape bureaucracy. She thinks he doesn’t listen anymore. He thinks she doesn’t understand. She’s always glued to the television. He only ever wants to get drunk. She thinks he spends too much time on the internet. Who is she always texting? What happens when you are in the same room as the person you love and you don’t even realise they are there? Thin Ice and Rhymes with Purple are young Scottish artists who after achieving separate successes in their own right have come together to combine their talents on Not More Than One Hour. Louise Oliver and Frodo McDaniel – directors of Rhymes with Purple – are fresh from their latest project A Work In Progress, an irreverent and entertaining piece of comedy theatre that sold out the Tron Theatre in Glasgow before going on to complete a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. "5 stars...very funny...a very entertaining brief history of theatre". (www.edfringe.com) "A great concept...laden with pop references and approached in a fun and modern way...well acted and personable...flamboyant, diverting and frequently chaotic". (Edinburgh Three Weeks Magazine) “A real sleeper hit". (Neil Murray - National Theatre of Scotland) Listed in The Sunday Times as Critics Choice. Fraser Gilmore – Director of Not More Than One Hour - is a Contemporary Theatre Practice graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and has worked extensively in New York with reputable theatre company The Builders Association. He has also recently returned from a run at the Edinburgh Fringe having worked with Shalimar Productions on their 2004 New York Fringe sell out Stirring and Squidge Productions on Use Once and Destroy.