The Girlfriend Experience
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For summer at the Young Vic, why not pop into a Bournemouth brothel, because Alecky Blythe's warm-hearted production really is holding a mirror - or a microphone - up to life. Seen last year at the Royal Court, The Girlfriend Experience is another notch on the bedpost for verbatim theatre where real-life conversations are used as a script for a play; here, the actors listen to the original recordings of the four prostitutes during the performance, a technique that ensures they capture the women's chatter "with eerie verisimilitude" (The Daily Telegraph). And if you've already started conjuring up images of grotty bedsits and street-walking druggies, then think again - these are exactly the kind of preconceptions Blythe wants to dispel with her world of gnomes, flat-pack furniture and PVC pants. As well as the hilarity, there are tinges of tragedy - "cryingly funny", said The Telegraph - an under-the-skin sadness hinging on 'the girlfriend experience', which they offer clients with kissing and cuddling but are truly afraid of never experiencing.About The Young Vic
Knocked together out of breeze blocks for a minimal budget in 1970, Lawrence Olivier's experimental theatre was intended to last for five years, and provide an inspiration for the new generation of performers. But this was an experiment that worked and, years later, the Young Vic remains south London's premier venue for the contemporary, the shocking, the controversial, and the bizarre. More about The Young Vic
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event Running from Thursday 16th February 2012 until Saturday 31st March 2012TIMES Various Times PRICING £10-£29.50
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Going Dark
event Running from Tuesday 6th March 2012 until Saturday 24th March 2012TIMES Various Times PRICING £15, Mar 6-8 previews £10
Sound & Fury Theatre, in association with Fuel, presents Hattie Naylor's solo drama set in a planetarium, which explores the parallel themes of a man losing his sight and the vanishing glories of real darkness and the night sky. Performed by John Mackay.
After Miss Julie
event Running from Thursday 15th March 2012 until Saturday 14th April 2012TIMES Various Times PRICING £17.50, Mar 15-20 previews £10
This emotional rollercoaster ride sees sex, class and ambition battle for centre stage, in Patrick Marber's 1945-set re-imagining of August Strindberg's drama.
PRICING Apr 13-19 previews £10, £17.50, Apr 20-30, May 1-13 £10-£29.50
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