This is a brave and ambitious production. The play is set in a run-down five-and-dime in a small town in Texas. Hank Williams is on the radio, there are photographs of James Dean all over one wall, and it is oppressively hot. An all-female fan club called ‘The Disciples of James Dean’ gathers to commemorate his death twenty years earlier. . . .
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“Directors’ Cuts is an annual season of contemporary theatre presented by the four graduating directors from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Returning to the Brewery Theatre for the second time, and with all four plays directed by women, the season opens with Little One . . . This two-hander is a powerful and unsettling psychological thriller about two adopted children raised by desperately well-meaning parents in a quiet and very respectable suburb in Ottawa . . . This is a gripping production that gets this year’s Directors’ Cuts season off to a flying start. “
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” . . . Only the most hidebound traditionalists would mourn the absence of females in the cast, so convincing is this version. I found it quite revelatory . . . this is undoubtedly a hugely enjoyable show, for having an all-male cast has created new opportunities for comedy that are exploited to the full. This production is as much comic ballet as comic operetta, and Lizzi Gee’s highly inventive choreography is often hysterically funny. Not for purists perhaps, but this is a wonderfully fresh take on The Pirates of Penzance. Highly recommended. ”
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Dominic Lindesay has created a fascinating and morally complex character. Guy is often crass, yet he is capable of considerable sensitivity. At times he is a blundering, selfish oaf, but he can also be forensically self-aware. We see his increasingly inebriated and excruciatingly inept attempt to chat up an attractive colleague at an office party, but we also see him thoughtfully reflecting on the masks that people wear when playing life’s various roles.
Read MoreInfectious portrays a disturbing, sterile world where it is forbidden to come within a metre of anyone else, and where a totalitarian regime exerts absolute control over its people through fear of disease. Welded Theatre is a new Bristol-based arts company, founded last January by Meghan Leslie and Edmund McKay. Their avowed intention is ‘to create reflective theatre that takes on contemporary subjects.’
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