GCSEs really stay with you, don’t they? It’s hard to be objective about a play when you find yourself anticipating lines before they’re spoken, words being dredged up from the depths of your school memories.
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Love Song to Lavender Menace – Lyceum
Love Song to Lavender Menace is a heart-warming tribute to ‘Lavender Menace’, a real-life lesbian, gay and radical feminist bookshop which opened on Edinburgh’s Forth Street in 1982, against the backdrop of Thatcher’s homophobic reign and subsequent underground queer publishing.
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Barber Shop Chronicles – Oxford Playhouse
From the National Theatre to a national tour, Inua Ellam’s Barber Shop Chronicles highlights important messages. The play explores diaspora and masculinity within black culture, leaping between several barber shops from around the globe – England, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa – over the course of a single day.
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Malory Towers – Oxford Playhouse
“Deliciously naughty”. The line that got the largest laugh, and one which summarises what was unexpectedly the most wonderful play I’ve seen in a long time.
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Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F***ed – Burton Taylor Studio
It’s a lot of words, I’ll give you that. Monologues are a gargantuan task at the best of times, let alone when the entire production is an hour-long solo effort. So why did I feel so underwhelmed by a nationally-touring, critically-acclaimed production that promised – at the very least – a thought-provoking evening?
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Two Trains Running – Oxford Playhouse
Taking on important issues of the time like gentrification, the poverty trap, and police tensions within the black community, Two Trains Running gives a picture of post-WW2 Pittsburgh and the aftermath of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
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