Everything We Need
From: Thursday, 28th June 2012
To: Saturday, 30 June 2012
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Everything We Need is the new solo show from award-winning writer and performer Ben Mellor, directed and dramaturged by Cheryl Martin, with live music from Dan Steele and Leonie Higgins. Drawing inspiration from both classic myth and climate change research, the piece is a humorous, moving and lyrical look at a diverse collection of contemporary characters as they struggle to come to terms with a changing world.
Our Review:
29 June 2012
A lack of clarity and cohesion reduces the impact of Ben Mellor’s potentially powerful Everything We Need. The play comprises seven monologues set in the context of the recent floods in the UK. Mellor explores various responses to such extremes – such as opportunistic optimism or pessimism.
Extending the context to include the myths of Noah and Gilgamesh provides one of the best monologues with a young man gaining sufficient life experience to challenge his father’s narrow beliefs. The morality of undercover police officers forming relationships with subversives is investigated. Strangely, for such a perceptive writer, Mellor’s earth-mother character comes close to the cliché of a drippy-hippy.
It is hard to determine why Mellor only establishes links between some of the monologues. This partiality is distracting -you search for non-existent connections- and reduces the dramatic impact of the ...
Creative
Ben Mellor (Author)
Royal Exchange (Producer)
Cheryl Martin (Director)
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