Di and Viv and Rose

Synopsis

"How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and lead separate lives Or we could really live together. What do you think?'' Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. From the team that created the award winning Mammals, Amelia Bullmore's play crackles with wisdom and wit. Di and Viv and Rose is a hilarious and thoughtful exploration of friendship's impact on life and life's impact on friendship.

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Steve - 24 September 2011:

Like Mike Leigh's Ecstasy, which moved me immensely at Hampstead Upstairs recently, this play is about ordinary life, the day to day of friendships and relationships and listening to music. Unlike Mike Leigh's play, which gained intense focus from the skewed perspective of Sian Brooke's deeply depressed character, this play relishes the lightness of friendship, the differences between people offering opportunities for them to grow and learn. Claudie Blakely is trippy and throughly invested in her life and the lives of others, Nicola Walker is impassioned, luminous, dressed in black, intelligent and mysterious and charismatic, and brilliant with it. Tamsin Outhwaite is sporty and gay, bold, reliable and decent. The three actresses take you through a lifetime of friendship that offers up ordinary happiness and ordinary unhappiness, and shows how friendship enriches both the moments of joy and the moments of misery. A brilliantly acted wonderful production that resonates....

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