Features Published 1 July 2015

Exeunt’s Weekly Picks: 1st July

Work by Tim Crouch and Greg Wohead features in this week's theatre top five.
Exeunt Staff

1. Bend It Like Beckham, Phoenix Theatre, London

“Bend it like Beckham’s infusion of Indian culture becomes its life blood, giving the field-flat tale of a girl earning a football scholarship a scent of pure magic. It bends the rules, shoots, and scores.”

The watchmen.

The watchmen.

2. 1984, Playhouse Theatre, London

“A masterful exercise in how to stage horror – tight as a wire, properly  nasty, hard to sit through without wincing.”

Multiple layers. Photo: Greg Veit.

Multiple layers. Photo: Greg Veit.

3. An Oak Tree, National Theatre, London

“The fresco or palimpsest is a useful way of thinking about An Oak Tree. It’s theatre of multiple layers, sometimes visible, sometimes not. Sometimes it’s a show about theatre; sometimes it’s a show about loss, grief and absence; sometimes it’s a show about transformations and illusions; sometimes it’s a show about what we choose to believe. Sometimes it’s about all of those things at once.”

lampedusa soho4. Lampedusa, Soho Theatre, London

“Lampedusa is experiential realism. It is a very ordinary and simple play (therefore unsafe) and it is ‘a plea against expositional nationalism’ and a plea for transnationalism.”

Credit: Alex Brenner

Credit: Alex Brenner

5. The Ted Bundy Project, on tour

“This show is anything but a thoughtless employment of ‘sensational’ material to get a cheap reaction. Instead Wohead forces the audience to the very brink of deep uncomfortableness.”

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