London

Synopsis

You get back to London and the noise of the place and the dirt and the colour and the roar of it. I can't actually. What I can't really do, for now, at least is work. In a city full of the push and pull, constant chatter and hum you can barely find the time to breathe. Youu want to get away. You deserve to get away. There is a choice - you can take everything you love with you or leave it all behind. London tells two heart-rending stories of family and the choices they make for the precious things they love.

Our Review:

John - 1 November 2012

London at the Live Theatre, Newcastle, is an hour-long performance, split in to two 30-minute monologues, T5 and Seawall.

The more interesting one is T5, which puts you inside the mind of the character telling the story. On entering the theatre you are given a pair of wireless headphones and just before the actress on stage wakes up (she has been lying on the bed while the audience arrives) you are asked to put them on. Thereafter you are listening to the woman tell the story through her thoughts. At times she says the words out loud and sings, but there is no sound in the theatre (I lifted my headset to check) so I was intrigued to know how she knew when to say the words or sing. But at the end she takes her wig off and removes the earpieces she has been wearing, mystery solved.

Before the next monologue starts we remove out headsets and watch the stage crew strip the set and leave some scenery propped up against the wall as the next actor waits.

Then on a bear st...

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