The God of Soho

Synopsis

A thief in heaven steals the divinity of the gods. Meanwhile down on earth some fetish items have been nicked from a reality TV star and she's facing exposure in the tabloids. Sex shops and comedy, gods and homeless people, all collide in a fierce, hectic and hilarious story about people looking for the divine. In Essex.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 2 September 2011

Chris Hannan’s new play is a riotous comedy of gods and mortals with much bad behaviour and serious trashing of the celebrity culture; a movie-land character named after the bilious American movie critic Joe Queenan; and a brilliant Brighton ska, dub and hip hop band called King Porter Stomp.

It is written in a heightened, lightly learned, scatological style that lifts the show to the edge of a mythical, classical plane – something like a mixture of Brecht, Alfred Jarry, Plautus and Ben Jonson – then tips the characters into a nightmarish underworld of Soho streets and Essex hinterland, where the visual aesthetic is one of Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn,” Allen Jones’s red lips sofa and other examples of “authentic reproduction,” including the film stars.

Big God and Mrs God – that’s a scurrilous and vocally lurid Phil Daniels accompanied by Miranda Foster as a divine fake with so much surgery she break...

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Latest User Review

carros - 18 September 2011:

Original and witty satire on today's warped and self absorbed celebrity culture. A mixture of modern and shakespearian worked well on the Globe Stage. Worth the ticket price just to watch and listen to Phil Daniels's earthy tones. He gave the production an added touch of class and reminded us all what a great actor he is. ...

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