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DNA

Royal Exchange, Manchester
From: Tuesday, 20th March 2012
To: Saturday, 24 March 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstar

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Synopsis

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their otherwise fractious lives, where’s the incentive to put things right?

Our Review: starstarstarstar

21 March 2012

Can they get away with murder? Well, I’m not telling you because the answer is in doubt right up to the last as Dennis Kelly’s gripping, short, sharp, shocker, of a thriller, follows the misadventures of a group of teenagers as they try to cover up an accidental (?) murder.

The author himself is on something of a high at present – his best-know play Love And Money was first seen at the Exchange in 2006 but he is now entering the stage stratosphere, as co-writer of hit musical Matilda, and DNA itself figures highly in GCSE drama courses.

Back to the play…a black comedy set in a disturbing world of adolescent cruelty, where peer pressure and lack of empathy with others leads to the kids becoming persuaded to try get away with murder.

Trying hard to impress his peers, before the play opens, Adam was goaded into runn...

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