Spinach

Synopsis

Imagine waking up, but you’re not in your bed. Imagine waking up, realizing you’ve been drugged and you’re tied to a stranger... a stranger you can’t see. Neither of you knows how you got there and neither of you knows how to escape. Tom and Kate can’t remember a thing.... not about the last few days anyway. Everything is a total blank, except for a halloumi kebab and a double-decker bus. As piece by piece they unravel their memories, each step brings them closer to knowing their captors, closer to their terrifying fate… and closer to each other.

Our Review:

18 June 2012

Giving a play the title of a vegetable makes one instantly think of health and food, but not until right at the end of the play is it revealed where the connection comes from. One can argue over whether Spinach is an appropriate title for such a well-made sung play with a lot of twists and stories within. Written and directed by Janine Waters, this Waters Edge production, first performed in Manchester’s Royal Exchange Studio last year, is quick paced, very often funny and deeply engaging due to its four excellent performers.

It starts with Kate (Cassandra Compton) and Tom (Ben Gerrard) waking up tied back to back in a cellar of a house not remembering how they got there or who the other is. They then realise that they have been drugged and bit-by-bit they remember and reconstruct the story, up to the dangerous truth.  

Right from the start, the recitative style of singing is engaging and shows off the performers’ abilities. Compton has a...

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Latest User Review

Marie Leighton - 28 June 2012:

Performers - brilliant Set - very clever Story and development - interesting Music - monotonous and too loud. Often couldn't hear the singers' words over the banging piano....

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