Eight
From: Monday, 6th July 2009
To: Saturday, 25 July 2009
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Synopsis
You chose your company; select four from eight captivating monologues that offer a group-portrait of Britain’s youth. From high-class hookers and 7/7 survivors, to squaddies making friends in morgues, these monologues are beautifully crafted and hugely effecting. New kid on the British writing scene, Ella Hickson, scooped a Fringe First and 'Best of the Edinburgh Festival' with this, her debut show. After sell-out runs in London and New York, this thrilling piece of new writing takes up its rightful place in the West End.
Our Review:
Theo Bosanquet - 15 July 2009
In a display of ultimate theatrical democracy, audience members at Ella Hickson's award-winning play, first produced at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, are asked to vote for the characters they most want to see over the course of the evening.
It's a neat gimmick, presumably designed to encourage return audiences as well as crank up the originality factor (after all, an evening of monologues isn't exactly redrawing the boundaries). On the downside, it means that half the cast of eight remain largely unused, as only four characters are featured in each performance.
On the night I attended we got Millie, a high class hooker providing ironing and Sunday roasts along with a “good old fashioned bonk”, traumatised soldier Danny, cheating girlfriend Astrid and flamboyant art dealer Andre, whose misguided boyfriend has ended it all with the aid of a Hermes scarf.
All of them are representative of the 'apathetic generation', described by Hickson in the program...
Creative
Ella Hickson (Author)
Tantrums Productions (Producer)
Edinburgh University Theatre Company (Company)
Ella Hickson (Director)
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