Encounters - You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy/Dry Ice
From: Tuesday, 8th May 2012
To: Saturday, 12 May 2012
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Synopsis
Meet Bush Associate Artists Sabrina Mafhouz and Caroline Horton in these two intimate, frankly spoken and widly funny solo shows performed over one evening. You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy by Caroline Horton - January 1945. Paris has been liberated. Christiane, an eccentric and acutely myopic Parisian waits at Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England to be reunited with her fiance. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible mademoiselle recounts the story of her love affair with Cyril, a tongue-tied English teacher from Staffordshire. A fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman's experience of love and war. Best Solo Performer, The Stage Awards 2010. Dry Ice by Sabrina Mahfouz Meet Nina, a 24-year-old stripper on the edge; her half-art-half-drug dealing boyfriend, and 18 other eccentrically entertaining characters from the world of surreal, sleazy, velvety strip-clubs and gentrified London dinner parties. Dry Ice is a debut solo show from the award-winning playwright and poet Sabrina Mahfouz. Mahfouz worked as a waitress in a strip-club for 5 years. But Dry Ice is not just a strip club expos? - it's a story of a young girl trying to find her place in the world. It is also quite funny. Developed with David Schwimmer, High Tide, Genesis Lab, New Wimbledon Fresh Ideas
Our Review:
10 May 2012
Two one-handers, two incredibly talented women, two disparate stories: Encounters makes for a delicious evening of storytelling. A 24-year old stripper and a Parisian woman from the Second World War couldn’t be further apart in subject, but their stories are equally well contrived and etched on the bare stage by these masterful narrators.
You can practically taste the Dry Ice filtering into the grungy exotic dancers club as Sabrina Mahfouz - with help from her celebrity director David Schwimmer - conjures the girls, the punters, the conversations with the boyfriend. And it’s immaculate; slipping through perfectly paced verse to the expertly rendered accents of the people that wash through the life of her protagonist, Dry Ice with its dry wit will leave you just that little bit enraptured. Perhaps it’s the down-to-earth northern quality of her voice that keeps it just this side of tasteful, but Mahfouz’s script never falls into gri...
Creative
Caroline Horton (You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy) (Author)
Sabrina Mahfouz (Dry Ice) (Author)
David Schwimmer (Dry Ice) (Director)
Molly Rowe (Dry Ice) (Costume)
Anne Chmelewsky (You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy) (Music)
Omar Elerian (You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy) (Director)
Clare Betney (Assistant Director/Dramaturg - You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy) (Director)
Ben Pacey (Lighting)
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