Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Socially relevant and emotionally poignant production
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Never Not Once
Park Theatre
THE UK premiere of this award-winning US play by Carey Crim is a moving family drama about coming to terms with the past.
When college student Eleanor tells her two mothers that she has hired a private detective to find out who her father is, she sets in action a course of traumatic events that drags up the past and reshapes the future.
This feminist work with a racially mixed cast in the wake of the #MeToo movement definitely ticks all the boxes for being topical and like much US drama is easily accessible with clearly defined and differentiated characters wearing their emotions on their sleeves without any ambivalence.
Meaghan Martin gives a strong performance as the student set on finding out where the other half of her chromosomes came from despite her biological mother’s unwillingness to help while Gilbert Kyem Junior provides an amusing counter-balance to the family tensions as her easy-going, woke boyfriend helping with her determined quest.
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