Bike
From: Sunday, 21st October 2012
To: Monday, 22 October 2012
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Synopsis
Katherine Mitchell's sassy and sensitive new script takes a look at one woman's sexual revolution and the art of two-wheeling. It's a witty and funny piece examining the universal quest for acceptance, self-esteem and love (No Whitney Huston belters, we promise).
Our Review:
Simon Harvey-Williams - 21 October 2012
Full length monologues are difficult things to pull off, the risk is to hold an audience’s attention with just one solitary performer and in many cases it feels that I have just been talked at. Another reoccurring problem is many monologues start strongly and then fizzle out with the weight of the story on one character. So hats off to Butterfly Psyche Theatre and the team behind Bike for not just putting on a great monologue but for one of the best pieces of theatre I’ve seen this year.
The question ‘Do you remember the first time?’ pervades throughout Katherine Mitchell’s script because sometimes the first time can leave a lasting impact. The play opens with a young girl receiving a bicycle bell as a present and she dreams of her first bike which will surely follow. We – the audience - watch beautifully played out snap-shots of a lonely child slowly learning to make her own way without stabilisers or parental control. The metaphor with the bike and ...
Creative
Katherine Mitchell (Author)
Butterfly Psyche (Company)
Nancy Medina (Director)
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