☆☆☆☆☆ This exquisite piece of art is a play I feel truly passionate about. In my opinion that everyone should go to see Julie. It explores the themes of loss and bereavement, drugs, addiction and infidelity. It dips its toes into ideas of responsibility, trust, growing up and the internal wars some people suffer with. It shocks the audience in a beautiful dance, tossing us around and swaying us up and down in a romantically terrifying way. The way in which actor Vanessa Kirby waltz’s around the stage barefoot in her sparkling skirt and loose jacket, acting with every inch of her body down to her twitching toes, enraptures the audience into this internal whirlwind she is struggling against. Kirby’s acting ability outstanded me and made me believe with my whole heart that she was suffering against her mind. **** To begin loud song blasted, dancers were throwing themselves in and out of dishwashers with artistic and symbolic flare. The sounds then muffled as we were intr...
☆☆☆☆ National Youth Theatres ‘The Fall’ used young, fearless actors to advocate the issues surrounding growing old. Dark subjects that are usually tip-toed around such as euthanasia, renting, growing old and sex are explored in a fresh new way in which dazzles the audience and educates them on the unspoken. It propels the future back to the present; making the audience perplexed at this exquisitely directed and performed piece of theatre. To begin there was a bed placed centre stage; washed with a dark purple light which intrigued the audience that filed in. It later became a solid prop and part of the scenery throughout the whole performance. The bed moved in position and changed the direction in which it was faced to represent both scene and mood changes. However, it remained in the centre. This infers the idea that the bed is a solid structure throughout everyone’s life. It is there when you are born and then when they die. It is where people have sex and where people...