Wretch

Synopsis

A compelling, wrenching and exposing performance journey, led by an enquiring wretch, who says and does the unsayable, the undoable. His grasp and love of language is poetic, brilliant, haunting and forces us to think - why does a memory you want to hang on to keep changing, why does love tear you up? Gari Jones has directed Accidental Death of An Anarchist, The Lonesome West, Depot, Under Milk Wood and A Slight Ache and The Lover for the Mercury Theatre Company. Suitable for 16+ years. Contains scenes and language some people may find disturbing.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Piestman - 26 October 2011

It’s difficult to feel much sympathy for the young man so forensically examined by Gari Jones in his aptly-named one-man show Wretch. He self-harms, is somewhat paranoid and we meet him in the dilapidated inner-city room (a squat, perhaps?) which he calls home. When he ventures outside, it’s to visit equally grimy pubs or mooch along the pavements and into stations in his not-quite aimless search for the girl of his fantasies.

Those dreams, of course, are closer akin to nightmares. Yes, there are comic moments (such as dressing  in a monstrously flowered outfit complete with high-heeled shoes).The relentless flow of words is punctuated visually by a very good set by Amy Yardley and some even better animations and lighting effects by Vanja Sheremetkoski and Emily Holmden respectively. Chris Murray’s use of sound blends extremely fallible karaoke with rock and classical doom chords.

There’s little fault to find with Jones̵...

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