My reading for this weekend was the brilliant and utterly heartbreaking, Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris. This play reminded me how much I can learn about dialogue from playwrights, it is a maze of half-sentences, and confusion that clears to the realisation that one of the characters has died and the other is… Continue reading Meet me at dawn
Category: Theatre
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
In November of last year I saw Andrea Dunbar’s Shirley performed at Halifax’s Square Chapel so when a tour of Rita, Sue and Bob Too was announced, following a run at the Royal Court, I knew I had to see it. The play is a hilarious story, but it’s tragic too. The potential of Rita,… Continue reading Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Red by Somalia Seaton
Oh my god, I loved this play. An exploration of grief and friendship, I love the replaying of scenes, looking for the missed clues, dropped stitches, trying to make sense of things. It’s a motif I also found powerful in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine where the book is entirely told in first chapters, as… Continue reading Red by Somalia Seaton
Hanna by Sam Potter
What’s a play? This short play by Sam Potter is a one-woman performance of the story of a child, accidentally sent home from the hospital with the wrong family as an infant, and the chaos that ensues when the mistake is discovered. Sadly, I didn’t to see this performed, but the story is so compelling,… Continue reading Hanna by Sam Potter
Mosquitoes
When I found out about Mosquitoes it was fully booked, but the gradual release of a few tickets and my willingness to head down to London for a Saturday matinee, meant I was lucky enough to see it. I think Mosquitoes is one of the most visually impressive plays I have ever seen, played in… Continue reading Mosquitoes
Five things I loved about Don Juan in Soho
Don Juan in Soho was probably the funniest theatre experience I had this year. It was so funny I cried. Real streams of tears. I’d read the play text and I was delighted that some text in the performance had been updated to poke fun at Theresa May and her ‘Strong and stable’ government. Oh… Continue reading Five things I loved about Don Juan in Soho