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The Summer House

The Gate Theatre, Inner London
From: Tuesday, 28th February 2012
To: Saturday, 24 March 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstar

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Synopsis

Three men arrive by car at a remote house in the countryside. Who are they? Where are they? Are those stuffed beavers on the wall? Then the Vikings arrive. This is a play about men and all their crap, about myths and what they’re for and about the weather and how it blows all the other stuff away anyway.

Our Review: starstarstarstar

2 March 2012

Ah, the stag weekend! One of the last bastions of manliness, where men are free to return to their Alpha roots and are positively encouraged to over indulge their masculine instincts through the mediums of beer, fights, strip clubs and novelty Viking helmets. However stag weekends, like members of the male species, are not all the same and Fuel’s latest production, The Summer House, introduces us to the more Beta end of the stag spectrum.

On a set as sparse as the Icelandic landscape in which the play is set, we are introduced to Stag Will (Will Adamsdale), Best Man Matthew (Matthew Steer) and Neil (Neil Haigh) on their way to Neil’s remote summer house in the mountains near Reykjavik in the dead of night. They are ready to stir up some stag chaos (after a cup of herbal tea) and ensure Will gets the (well-organised and efficient) send-off he deserves. Unfortunately, no amount of laminated schedules can prepare them for what awaits them at the Summer Hous...

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Creative

Will Adamsdale (Author)
Neil Haigh (Author)
Matthew Steer (Author)
John Wright (Author)
Fuel (Company)
John Wright (Director)
Michael Vale (Design)
Ian Scott (Lighting)
Chris Branch (Music)
Chris Branch (Sound)


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