Muslim boy meets Jewish girl. Mush is loud. Gabrielle is clever. She’s too good for that job in the call centre. He’s cocky. She’s intrigued. And why wouldn’t she be interested in someone who teases her with charming lines such as “Don’t take the piss out of my prophet, you slag”? Actually, I meant, why […]
Category archives: Theatre
Theatre Uncut 2014
I consume politics like I consume food. On a regular basis and in any format I like. I like my eggs scrambled and my reading in the form of mildly outraged Guardian articles from a carefully curated Twitter stream. There I can exchange snarky comments with other like-minded people and if someone threatens my belief […]
The World Mouse Plague
An old lady is about to be evicted from her home because an artist is doing an important site-specific response piece in the building. “Social cleansing under the cover of art”, she calls it and then a guy in a cat costume walks on and snarls at the audience. To call Ridiculusmus’ show The World […]
Electra
She can no longer stomach the size of her sorrow, Electra says, but neither can the others at Aegisthus’ court. Her mother, her sister and the chorus, all want her to stop lamenting Agamemnon’s death. Her father, killed years ago by her mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus, hovers over Electra as a soul-sucking memory […]