Teenage Riot
From: Tuesday, 12th April 2011
To: Saturday, 16 April 2011
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for Teenage Riot tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
| Tweet |
|
Synopsis
Eight youngsters shut themselves off because they feel like it. They don’t know why exactly. In fact, they don’t even know what they want or don’t want but there’s enough lust, frustration, irritation to find out what’s shitty about the fact that they’ll become someone like you. Contains adult themes
Our Review:
Karen Bussell - 14 April 2011
A fast and furious explosion of angst hits the stage as Ontroerend Goed’s Teenage Riot erupts with great passion.
The Belgian performance group is notorious for its challenging and certainly different approach to theatre.
Using multimedia (most appropriate given Yoof’s reliance on screen technology), the nine youngsters give the audience a swift insight to those teenage years and issues in case they had been forgotten. And each generation adds in its own new dimensions – here notably the love of violent computer games and self-harm.
A white cube dominates with most of the action taking place inside it but filmed and projected onto the external wall.
It is hard not to read more into producer Richard Jordan’s piece than is probably there. And I feel sorry for my own teenager, who accompanied me on the night, as I feel I have somehow cheated her of believing in her individuality - instead seeing that in fact teenagers live down to clich...
Creative
Alexander Devriendt (and the cast) (Author)
Ontroerend Goed (Producer)
Kopergietery (Producer)
Drum Theatre Plymouth (Producer)
Richard Jordan Productions Ltd (Producer)
Information
|
