Bunny

Synopsis

Katie is a feisty, intelligent 18 year old. When her boyfriend Abe gets into a fight, his mate suggests they track down the kid who attacked him. What starts as an adventure becomes more menacing as Katie is dragged into the murky depths of the Luton undergrowth. A world of entrenched racial tensions. A world that she doesn’t understand. This deeply personal new play from one of Britain’s most exhilarating young writers is an uncompromising look at the complexities of growing up and the complications of racial diversity in Britain today.

Our Review:

22 June 2011

Katie (Rosie Wyatt) is a precocious and cocky 18 year old. She has an older black boyfriend and has blown so many boys that she almost earned the nickname ‘balloon girl’. But underneath her streetwise exterior is she a scared bunny?
 
Jack Thorne’s new play is a subtle but successful character study. An almost farcical incidence of violence causes a series of events prompting Katie to examine her life. She emerges as an arrogant child slyly taking petty acts of revenge on people against whom she nurses a grievance. It is exciting to watch as growing self-awareness moves Katie towards, if not redemption, at least regret.
 
Director Joe Murphy fails to generate the necessary exhilaration and tension to reflect the aggression described in the play. As a result the play drifts until it reaches Katie’s self-examination.
 
The design, by Hannah Clark and Ian William Galloway, is highly imaginative. Jenny Turner’...

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