A mixed bag evening, mostly good stuff in the mix, with three short plays all with a “yoof” theme, at the Cottesloe.
We weren’t going to miss this one. Roy Williams we liked a lot when we first came across him at the Royal Court a few years before. Ditto Dennis Kelly, whose work we’d very much enjoyed at the Hampstead. Lin Coghlan was new to us.
We weren’t overly familiar with Paul Miller’s name as director then, although we had seen his work before and now (writing in 2016) know his work well at the Orange Tree.
Apparently this production emerged from the National Theatre’s Connections programme, getting young people involved in performing, although this production was picked up by and delivered by professionals, albeit some of them very young professionals.
LondonTheatre.co.uk provides a useful cast & crew list and a short synopsis of each play.
Interesting reviews:
- our friend Michael Billington in the Guardian was pretty impressed with the threesome;
- so was Charlotte Cripps in the Independent;
- Philip Fisher’s British theatre Guide review leaves only a few good pictures in its wake.
I think we liked the first two plays a fair bit more than the last, but two out of three really ain’t bad for this sort of evening, so we were thoroughly satisfied.
Can you maybe give more info about Baby Girl by Roy Williams that would be very helpful thanks 🙂
Thanks for your interest and comment, Lucy.
I have added a link in the main piece (above) to the RNT to the education work pack for these pieces, which contains synopses and more on each of the short plays. That, together with the review links I included before, should give you plenty of information about Baby Girl.
I hope this helps.