Everything Must Go
From: Tuesday, 23rd June 2009
To: Saturday, 4 July 2009
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Synopsis
When the economy bites, Soho writers bite back. Writers. Actors. An empty space. Some of Soho's most exciting talents take on the economic crisis, creating provocative and playful bargain basement theatre. Featuring mortgage magic from Marisa Carnesky, an economy song-cycle by Steve Thompson (Roaring Trade), a Slumdog satire from Oladipo Agboluaje, plus new pieces from the explosive Will Eno (Thom Pain... based on nothing), Bola Agbaje (Gone Too Far) and Kay Adshead (The Bogus Woman).
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 29 June 2009
Ten short plays in two hours is the response of the Soho Theatre to the gathering financial crisis, all written quickly, rehearsed in just two weeks by directors Lisa Goldman and Esther Richardson and performed on a bare stage by a cast of five plus white rapper Maxwell Golden and solo artist Marisa Carnesky.
For the tattooed and lubricious Carnesky, best known for her spooky Ghost Train, times are hard: she is literally lying on a bed of nails, homeless. All she has left is a small palace, a doll’s house of knives into which she lures an audience volunteer before plunging in yards of cold steel; the old music hall trick assumes a bitter twist in these daggers of misfortune.
In Bola Agbaje’s opening salvo, it is defiantly announced that the world’s for sale and “everybody shops at Lidl,” while a more complex survey of industrial relations in Paula B Stanic’s 6 Minutes shows a fight for respect among the unemployed in a 1970s-style breakdown of trust an...
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Soho Theatre (Producer)
Lisa Goldman (Director)
Esther Richardson (Director)
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