External
From: Wednesday, 7th September 2011
To: Saturday, 17 September 2011
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Synopsis
Jen wants to talk to you. Lucy wants more. They’ve got some stuff they found in a garage, a strict no-touch policy, and conflicting ideas about how to keep you happy.
Our Review:
9 September 2011
“I think you expect us to say something... I think you expect the play to begin now”.
The first lines of any play are rarely as frank as this. Yet if there was one word to describe Getinthebackofthevan’s latest production, it is just that - frank. Or witty. Or powerfully and unashamedly clever.
In fairness, one could probably enter the world that External evokes armed with a hefty Oxford English dictionary and still never quite find the right word to describe the hour-long delight that is deftly (and bizarrely) put together by both Lucy (McCormick) and Jennifer (Pick) - personas and performers, with whirlwinds of enthusiasm.
The show is, intrinsically, a response to a Dutch production entitled Internal, enacted in External through some unashamedly “quite offensive stereotypes”. External deftly manages to weave together the external aspects of performance (outing the inner monologue, faking death, faking tears, clamouring for attention, an...
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Getinthebackofthevan (Company)
Hester Chillingworth (Director)
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