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Charged - Charged 1: Fatal Light/Taken/Dream Pill

Soho Theatre, Inner London
From: Wednesday, 10th November 2010
To: Saturday, 27 November 2010

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Michael Coveney - 15 November 2010

In two cycles of three half-hour plays each, the Clean Break company, which works with women affected by, and working in, prisons, has occupied the Soho from top to bottom: two plays in the upper floor studio, two in the cellar, and two on the stage proper.

Although Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s That Almost Unnameable Lust achieves a poetic density in the suddenly super-charged plight of two prisoners unable to respond to the challenge of articulating experience, the plays are quite bitty and small-scale.

This does not detract from their worthiness, nor the novelty value of chasing a bunch of fine actors through some harrowing situations: mothers and daughters divided, gangs on the warpath, drugs and despair, policewomen at odds with each other in a macho culture, a tug of love in a retrospective suicide mystery.

And Rebecca Prichard’s Dream Pill buttonholes us uncompromisingly with the fate of two under-age girls – nine and ten, for pity&...

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Amanda - 15 November 2010: starstarstarstarstar

It’s a credit to the amazing acting talent on show in Charged that one of the all female cast playing male gang members in Dancing Bears could be mistaken for a man!...

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Clean Break (in association with Soho Theatre) (Producer)
Chloe Moss (Fatal Light) (Author)
Winsome Pinnock (Taken) (Author)
Rebecca Prichard (Dream Pill (Author)
Clare Lizzimore I:Lucy Morrison (Director)
Caroline Steinbeis (Director)
Tessa Walker (Director)

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