Andi Osho - All the Single Ladies

Synopsis

"Translating Osho's words to the page doesn't do her proper justice... her work is visual, narrative and pivots on her perfect delivery." The Guardian

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 22 March 2012

Statistically, the suicide rate peaks over the Christmas period. You can see why this is so as Abigail Burdess’ play for three very different women All the Single Ladies progresses. In fact neither the regularly-Botoxed, much-divorced older woman (Leslie Ash), not the independent free-spirited Irish girl (Tara Flynn) and not even the young Army widow (Brooke Kinsella) take that particular road to oblivion.

Director Andy Burden confronts us with three discrete interiors. Ash inhabits a trendy bar-like space, Flynn manoeuvres on and around a squishy sofa and Kinsella occupies a lived-in kitchen space. As time stutters from 26 December towards New Year’s Day, faint threads of connexion appear to unite the three women’s contrasted lives. Appropriately enough, these come via the world-wide web. Laptops and mobile phones are must-have tools.

Kinsella’s character mourns his husband Mark, killed when his parachute failed to unfold....

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Latest User Review

Sue Dixon - 22 April 2012:

I saw this play in Eastbourne last night. Not many people turned out for it and I can see why. It might have been so much better. The actresses all worked well, but I didn't feel any sympathy for the characters and there could have some interaction with the audience. The play didn't develop any story and the links between the characters were tennous or non-existent. It was an evening out for me, but one that left me feeling a bit cheated....

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