Wiktor Koper is a Young Critic for 2023 and chose to respond in a visual way to Trojans by Company Philip Connaughton in association with Once Off Productions seen at Cork Midsummer Festival June 2023.
Since joining Young Critics I learned to consider that a response to a performance has way more possibilities then a written statement or even simple words in general. While I adore writing here I tried to challenge myself and put my artistic hand to use!
The image is a digital poster-like graphic. The inspiration behind it derived from my experience watching the dance performance ‘Trojans’ at Cork Midsummer Festival. I can only describe ‘Trojans’ as an epic and profound piece, coincidentally loosely inspired by Virgil’s epic ‘ The Aeneid ‘. It contained amazingly talented performers that twisted and turned just like one’s interpretation of the work during the viewing. It was sure to leave anyone in a deeply contemplative and perhaps even personal mood.
Wiktor Koper is a Young Critic in 2023 and a member of W.A.C.T Youth Theatre in Co. Wexford.
The National Youth Theatre in Like We Were Born To Move by Eimear Hussey. Directed by Niall Cleary. Produced by Youth Theatre Ireland at Abbey Theatre. Photo Credit: Ros Kavanagh.
The National Youth Theatre is an initiative of Youth Theatre Ireland, and this year celebrates its 40th anniversary. It is supported by the Arts Council, Creative Ireland and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, and is comprised of a cast of young people between the ages of 16 to 21 from all across Ireland. It is an incredible opportunity for these young people to work with some of Irelands best creative teams on a production that is then put on for the public.
This year, the Young Critics were lucky enough to be invited to see the National Youth Theatre’s production, a brand new play ‘Like We Were Born To Move’, written by National Youth Theatre alumni Eimear Hussey and directed by Niall Cleary.
‘Like We Were Born To Move’ is a celebration of youth. It is a play about wanting to become an adult and make your own decisions, and the terrifying bump when you realise you now have to. It centres around the lives of 16 young people, and their struggles with identity, family, loss, sexuality, money, career and friendship. Dance is also a prominent theme, as many of the characters are dancers themselves, or aspire to be.
When we did a bit of research before we saw the show, I was quite shocked to find out that there was 16 cast members. I worried that this would be way too many characters to keep up with and it would become confusing and muddled, like starting a tv show on season 4 without having seen the previous 3 seasons. However, I was surprised by how well these 16 characters were introduced to the audience. It was done gradually, throughout the run of the show. Sometimes characters were spoken about onstage for a few scenes before they actually made an appearance, making it easier to connect them all in my head. The links and relationships between the characters and how they all managed to be individual and different was truly incredible and extremely well thought out. Occasionally I found myself wishing we could see more of some characters that had slightly less of a main role, and I think this is down to the excellent storytelling in the writing, with each character having such a cleverly crafted identity. Obviously with 16 cast members, some were going to have more obviously main roles as others, but I think the balance between them all worked very well and I was really hooked on all of their stories.
It was really lovely to see the chemistry between all of the actors. As someone pointed out in our panel after the show, for a production about young adults and their relationships with each other, there was no kissing onstage at all. However, in my opinion, this cast didn’t need it. They were so incredibly in sync with each other, in their movements and emotions, and you could really feel the intimacy between characters without ever having to show it. They said everything in the pauses between lines and it was a really beautiful thing to watch a group of young people who clearly have so much love for each other in real life translate that to the stage.
Another feature of the National Youth Theatre is their Design and Technical Theatre ensemble, comprised of 4 young people from across the country. The ensemble are given the incredible opportunity to learn from the professional designers working on the production as well as having some influence in the final designs.
The set was designed by set designer Choy-Ping Clarke-Ng. The set itself was simple enough, however, it was taken from simple to incredibly engaging thanks to all the small details dotting the stage. The mismatched chairs, the paint peeling off the door, the laundry spilling out of the washing machine all painted an endearing picture of a house lived in by a group of young people. Little things like socks hanging off the chandelier and a lamp balanced on an old Roses box added to the aesthetics of the set and really made it seem homely and personal, but also slightly falling into disrepair due to the nature of its tenants. You could really see the influence the Design and Tech Ensemble might have had on making the set feel more relatable to young people today.
The same can also be said for the costumes. Designed by costume designer Mae Leahy, each costume was unique to the characters and perfectly suited each actor. The costumes all seemed to have a slight vintage feel to them which makes me wonder if this had anything to do with the Design and Tech Ensemble’s input as a group of young people. Vintage clothing is hugely coming back into style, especially among ‘Gen Z’, so this made the clothing even more realistic and brought the characters further to life.
Overall, this was a really enjoyable production, and definitely a fresh new take on themes that have been shown in media over and over again. It was incredibly refreshing as a young person to see a production about young people, performed by young people and written by a young person. References to things like Longitude and Gilmore Girls elevated the humour in this play to especially appeal to younger audiences, growing up in the 21st century. The dance storylines were a really good way to add movement into the play as well as touching common issues for young dancers. Themes like sexuality, mental health and dysfunctional family dynamics were dealt with skilfully and with a light touch, while still providing a poignant, bittersweet insight into the highs and lows of the life of a young adult in 2023.
Emma is a member of Act Out Youth Theatre and a 2023 Young Critic.
Ruth Cunningham is a member of Roscommon Youth Theatre and is a Young Critic for 2023.
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I’m not in the centre of this and it’s really annoying me but we’re just going to leave that. So, hello my name is Ruth Cunningham. I am from Roscommon County Youth Theatre (arguablythe best youth theatre) and I am one of your young critics for 2023! This is my review of FreeFalling.
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I’m a bad boy for breakin’ her heart
And I’m free
Free fallin’
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For context, backin June we went to the Cork Midsummer Festival. We got to see three very different performances. Freefalling was my personal favourite.
So this is a one-woman show that’s directed by Lynne Parker and tells Georgina Millers’ life story. We went to see this in the Everyman theatre in Cork.
So. 14 years ago, Georgina Miller, an actor and writer from Limerick, decided to use up her life savings and go abroad to travel the world. During her travels she swam with sea turtles, swam in crystal clear blue waters, fell in love, danced on beaches and skydived. She was really living the dream. Until things took a turn for the worst. She couldn’t move her body properly and no one knew why. If she didn’t treat her mystery condition soon, she would need a ventilator to keep herself alive.
I’m just going to talk about some of the things I really enjoyed about the performance.
Other than the plot, one thing that was really cool about this performance was the set that they built for it. It was almost like a cocooning tree. I don’t know if you have ever been in the Everyman Theatre before. It’s a very big stage. It was very clever to build this set to frame the action. It was like branches that held her together with little lights on the bottom. Lynne Parker used these to illustrate the story as well. There is one section in the story where Georgina goes to Uluru. There is this myth that if you take these rocks from there (lots of tourists do it) it is meant to give you bad luck. Obviously Georgina being Georgina she took them. How they showed this on stage was that all the rest of the lights dimmed and all you could see where the little red dots on branches. I was sat back thinking “Oh my god this is so cool”.
One thing that I haven’t mentioned yet is the fact that this show had and aerial element. For the entire performance (except for the very start and the very end), Georgina was on a harness controlled by Jose Portillo. He would propel her up and down to illustrate the story. She would demonstrate her diving throughout the air – it was very cool to watch. They even used this as a storytelling mechanism. When she had a lot of mobility she was up in the air doing loads of tricks but when she was really ill and she couldn’t move she was down on the ground. I thought this was so clever.
I just want to commend Georgina’s performance. It is so hard to be on stage alone for a minute. The fact she was on her own on stage commanding that audience for the entire performance – It is just mind-blowing. She had the ability to change the entire mood of the piece depending on what she was talking about. There were people laughing, there were people crying. She made us all feel something and I think that is something to be really proud of.
For me the message of this play is that our freedom is finite and we need to appreciate our lives while we have them. Also to invest in health insurance – that is very important. I would advise that if you re going to see this play, be aware that it does talk about very emotional times. It is very heartbreaking. Personally, I got quite upset at parts of it. Just be aware of that before you are going. Be aware that you can always talk to someone if you are having problems after the play because it is important to get those feelings out.
I would give this play a 4/5 stars.
I hope that you take my opinions on board. Obviously someone could have said that they hated it and I respect that [opinion]. I hope that you take this on board and maybe you’ll agree with me. Thank you for listening.
The play ‘Elles Vivent’ (EV) is a remarkably funny and frank production that examines our modern norms by heightening them to their inevitable ridiculous conclusion.
For some background information EV was originally conceived by Antoine Defoort and then collaborated on by Lorette Moreau. It was performed by the aforementioned Antoine Defoort as well as, Sofia Teillet, Alexandre Le Nours and Arnaud Boulogne, with The Spirit of the Forest as logomorphic adviser and engineering of the Fliflifli Reform by Kevin Matagne. Oh, and if list wasn’t setting off any senses, it’s entirely in French.
The story goes as such; in the future, an indeterminate amount of time (+2 years) away, two friends, Michel and Taylor, meet in a forest to discuss their lives over the past years. Michel has spent two years in a deep mindfulness isolation and so has plenty of questions regarding the current state of the world to ask his good friend.
One of the most pressing themes present within EV is the relationships that we have with our ideas, modalities and societal norms. From the absurdity of our modern customs to the almost autonomous life and strength we give to ideas simply by thinking of them. EV treats ideas and concepts as living things that are hard to kill and will naturally defend themselves. Such as, the concept of fear. EV describes the idea of fear as something you push away behind a fridge or at the back of a cupboard, but, in the effort you take to try and forget this fear, to kill it, this idea, it grows in strength, out of sight but looming, breathing down your neck. In answer to this EV suggest (by means of musical prose no less) that by acknowledging all of our ideas equally, ‘by giving them a seat at the table’, and acknowledging the fact that we ‘Are super scared’, it removes the threat they pose, giving them nothing but a passive influence on our lives.
But let’s hang on that musical prose part for a sec’ because it gives me an excellent segue into one of the best parts of this play, that being; the funny. Hands down EV contains a fantastic sense of comedy throughout, often pairing it with serious thoughts and concepts to create a paradoxical situation in which you both believe completely in what they are proposing while simultaneously laughing your head off at it, or as they more deftly describe it, ‘Holding two opposing truths at once’. Such as ‘The Stick Prayer’, a mindfulness activity proposed in universe that despite lucridity of it, works. And it is this mixture of paradox and comedy that I believe keeps audience members open to conversation and discussion of these ideas.
But it’s not just the story that is cause to this brilliant piece of art. Designed by Marie Szersnovicz, EV’s constant backdrop of a beautiful forest scape gives the story an almost timeless sense despite being set in the future. The projecting screen set in the middle of the stage ensures that your eyes are neither carried too far away from the characters nor the subtitles, as well as providing story relevance by setting the scenes in the memories.
The crowning jewel though, what I believe shows that true care and attention has been put into this play is the feature of the nmemoprojector. The simple prop slash plot device in question allows the wearer to view any memory that they may recall. Not only does this provide a quick way to jump between multiple points in the past two years, but what I love is the clarity of the memory has an effect on the viewing. Backgrounds may be blurred or simply just a colour gradient, furniture is reduced to simply geometric shapes, at one point a character’s recollection fades to just the emotion that they felt at this time, so nothing is projected, but the accompanying music swells and fills the theatre, letting the feels wash over you in one of the only languages where fluency is unrequired.
When all is said Elles Vivent is a brilliant think piece that dissects our norms and tackles interesting issues within the self while also managing to be an absolutely hilarious in an ingenious performance.
Dearbhla McCormick is a member of Monaghan Youth Theatre and is a Young Critic for 2022.
Dearbhla McCormick is a Young Critic for 2022 and is from Monaghan Youth Theatre. They chose to creatively respond to the performance they saw of A Safe Passage by Irene Kelleher, performed at the Cork Midsummer Festival 2022.
Derived from the Frank O’Connor short story published in 1931 and first adapted to the stage by Neil McKenzie in 1958, Guests of the Nation made its way to the stage once again for the Cork Midsummer Festival in June. Brought to life through the talents of director Pat Kiernan and writer Kevin Barry, this new adaptation both instilled its own distinct flavour to the casting and direction whilst still retaining the spirit and bite of O’Connor’s original work. Set during the Irish War for Independence, Guests of the Nation chronicles the story of 4 soldiers; two Irish, two British, as they struggle with the trials and tribulations of the war whilst inevitably hurtling towards the death of the latter by execution.
Right from the word go I was engaged by the stark humanity portrayed in the imprisoned British soldiers as they grappled with their impending fates. Whereas the majority of works depicting the War for Independence would entirely portray the British in a negative light, Barry’s script offers a more morally grey portrayal of the Brit’s, bringing into question the morale of the IRA ironically. This is not to imply that the former approach is inherently a negative, see Ken Loach’s The Wind that Shakes the Barley for what can be achieved with such an approach, but to put emphasis not on the frankly psychotic slaughter of civilians often enacted by the Black & Tans but instead the humanity of those caught up in the torture and bloodshed that ultimately had no direct ties to such barbaric actions was an impressive and bold choice.
Of course a distinct element of this adaptation I have otherwise overlooked thus far would be the all-female cast with Gina Moxley, Liz Fitzgibbon, Amy Conroy and Chloe O’Reilly portraying the IRA and British soldiers respectively. Any potential scepticism was swiftly dashed out as the play began proper, as all four women did a phenomenal job engrossing me into the narrative. I can’t say for certain whether this was a direct decision by the creative team, but it made me think during and after the show about how certain gender archetypes influence how people may make casting decisions. This isn’t to say that masculine men or feminine women for instance aren’t still present in the modern world of course, but the assumption that everyone of both genders only fall into certain demographics is simply misguided, something this show fortunately goes against the grain on.
Another key aspect of this iteration of the story is that it is not squarely resigned to the stage for its entirety, rather the audience is taking across the city of Cork much as the characters go across the Irish countryside. Not only does this result in an incredibly distinct vibe to the proceedings than I have ever seen in any stage production thus far, but it also allows the audience some time, albeit brief, to muse on the characters actions and the trajectory of the narrative. It’s not as if most stage shows don’t have a standard intermission of course, but those are usually during the middle point. By making the audience go from place to place at three separate intervals gives more instances to ponder on the story at hand and what is trying to be conveyed.
Overall I’d say that this new iteration of Guests of the Nation has more than surpassed my expectations. Through adapting O’Connor’s new work whilst integrating their own distinct elements, Kiernan and Barry have simultaneously revamped the show in some ways for a modern audience whilst still retaining the spirit of the original short story, of which still retains a strong potency a little over ninety years after its first publication.
Ethan Mallon is a member of Act Out Youth Theatre in Co. Meath and is a Young Critic for 2022.
In our latest review, Youth Theatre Ireland’s own National Youth Theatre production comes under the watchful eye of the Young Critics gaze.
Aftertaste by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth is a thought-provoking, original piece that takes a well-timed look at a dystopian near future without any sugar-coating.
Aftertaste is the culmination of 22 young people aged 16-20 from Youth Theatres across the country working together to celebrate the National Youth Theatre, an event organized by Youth Theatre Ireland and supported by the Abbey Theatre. This production is especially made for YouTube and was intended to be watched as a pre-record rather than as a live stream or in a theatre. It is directed by National Youth Theatre Director Veronica Coburn.
The play is set in an Ireland where the National Alliance Party have rose to power led by President Sanbrooke Martin (Samuel Ferrie) on the one-year anniversary of the passing of the Health and Wellness Act, banning foods with a high sugar or fat content. As a result of this, many are left starving and Junk Advocates have arisen, people eating illegal foods on their social media accounts and condemning the government. Several of these Advocates have been going missing, including 21-year-old Lila Birch (Daisy Hartigan) who has been missing for 6 days. Lila’s sister, Eadie Birch (Ella O’Callaghan) is getting no answers from the authorities. Meanwhile, there is internal strife within the National Alliance Party; Vice-President Jana Kaminski (Julia Szarota) is vying for President Martin’s position and journalist Oisín Ó Hanluain (Odhran Exton) is seeking to undermine the President’s policies.
These various political operatives, movie stars and the staff of The Royal Marine Restaurant eventually collide in a moment of frenzy at an ill- fated anniversary dinner honouring President Martin.
The excellent ensemble is completed by Caoimhe O’Farrell, Abbi Breen, Sadhbh McDonough, Tristan Spellman Molphy, Matthew Eglinton, Abhainn Harrington, Max Mufwasoni, Cara Mooney, Adam Henry, Aileen Broidy and Seán Loughrey.
The actors had to overcome the obstacle of a pre-recorded performance and convey a realistic portrayal of an authoritarian regime. They were able to do this whilst maintaining a certain amount of levity. We were given a detailed overview of this darker life from multiple societal perspectives, political leaders and glamorous celebrities to the everyday people who are affected by their actions. Overall, the actors more than deliver on their attempts to engage, entertain and make us think.
Sets were not heavily integral to this production and most often simple plain colour backgrounds were used with some exceptions. Basic props such as chairs, tables or podiums were used to set the scene. The politicians’ costumes are bright pinky-purple pastel colours while in comparison the outfits of the ordinary people are drab, dreary shades of brown. We also see the uniforms of The Royal Marine, crisp, professional attire. The work of lighting designer Suzzi Cummins is bright and powerful, stimulating the viewer and evoking emotional reactions. Sound designer Sinead Diskin and visual designer Cherie White work in tandem to provide an intense, rhythmic audio coupled with striking visuals which works together to pump up the audience and bring across the broader feelings of the piece. I think these various components combine to form a strong, successful use of design.
In closing, Aftertaste is a unique play that peers into the darker sides of wellbeing and healthy eating. This is a show that cannot be missed.
Aftertaste was broadcast on the Abbey Theatre’s YouTube Channel from Aug 8th- 15th 2021. Produced by Youth Theatre Ireland.
For our latest reviews, the Young Critics were able to watch recordings of two of the four productions from The Stream You Step In.
This co-production from The University of Windsor and Outside the March is an anthology of original plays commissioned specifically for the School of Dramatic Arts’ graduating BFA students occurring entirely over Zoom. Through the project, OtM is supporting some of Canadian theatre’s pivotal playwriting voices: Elena Eli Belyea, Karen Hines, David Yee and Marcus Youssef.
The shows under review are Thank You for Your Labour by Marcus Youssef and Karen Hines’ The River of Forgetfulness.
Thank You For Your Labour; A Stunningly Relevant Online Theatre Piece By Éabha Phelan
Thank You for Your Labour, written by Marcus Youseff, is a thought-provoking and bluntly realistic piece about the repercussions of forced allyship and performative activism.
In creating Thank You for Your Labour, Toronto-based theatre company, Outside The March, in collaboration with the University of Windsor, have created a relatable and almost immersive zoom-play experience that will have the audience rethinking their approach to modern politics. The play shows three white students, Meghan (Caitlin Jasulaitis), Emily (Alannah Pedde), and Steven (Brennan Roberts), discussing what they plan to do for their University’s concert in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. In an effort to promote diversity they invite their class’s only brown student, Alicia (Elena Reyes), to work with them. However, between high egos, schoolgirl crushes and the battle for political correctness, things quickly begin to go downhill.
In this play, Meghan desperately attempts to be politically correct and almost preaches to her friends about all the things they’re doing wrong. However, in her attempts to be the best ally she can be, she ends up seeming to only see Alicia for her race instead of as an actual person. The play being over Zoom creates an environment where you feel as though you too are in the call and are involved in the awkward tension that is created. This provides an insightful look, in a blunt but impactful way, into how white people can often end up speaking over people of colour and trying to be ‘white saviours’, an issue that is particularly relevant with the largely social media based Black Lives Matter Movement.
While the play’s message is about race, the only character who is overly focused on that is Meghan and all the others have their own, completely unrelated motivations. Emily and Alicia are only there because they’re crushing on each other and Steven just wants to play his song. All the characters, including Meghan, are beautifully developed with complex backgrounds and morals and are not what they appear to be at face value.
Although the ending was rather flimsy, with the song feeling random and forced and there seemingly being no consequences for Meghan’s mistreatment of the rest of the group, I feel that it didn’t take away from the main focus and message of the piece.
Many theatre companies felt as though their passion was being ripped away from them when Covid-19 began to spread like wildfire and the world went into lockdown. In a desperate attempt to salvage our craft we began grasping at the brand-new concept of ‘zoom-plays’, with some creating touching art in ways we had never experienced before and others crumbling disastrously before our eyes. Thank You for Your Labour from director Mitchell Cushman, is undeniably one of the successes of the pandemic.
Rating: 4/5
The River of Forgetfulness or Get me the Fuck out of this Zoom Play – Reviewed By Sarah Carolan
If you are an actor not being able to perform, or you hate logging on to Zoom meetings, then this meandering storyline is for you.
The show starts off with three flatmates; Sammy, who was meant to play Jo from Llittle Women (Sam Cranston), Katelyn, who was meant to play Satan in Paradise Lost (Katlyn Doyle) and Alison, who was meant to play Bill Slank in Peter and the Star Catcher(Alison Adams). They are on separate devises on a zoom call. They start to quote their plays and put on costumes, becoming their characters and talk about how in an alternate universe, without Covid, they’d be on stage. They wait for their friend Caleb (Caleb Pauzé) to join outside their house so he can use their wifi. We learn that Caleb was meant to play Adam in Paradise Lost. When he joins he starts to quote the others’ lines and asks to be let onto the house. The girls realise something is wrong with him as he won’t talk as himself and he hints that he is not human and that the same will happen to them. Taking a twist, Alison reveals that she had been writing a play, explaining the event that follow. The characters face a mix between reality and fiction and not being able to figure out which is which.
As I watched the characters try to puzzle their way out, I couldn’t help but empathise with their confusion, comparing it to the uncertainty during the pandemic.
Even though the play was relatively short, it seemed dragged out. I think this was because of the somewhat confusing story line. Even afterwards I found myself trying to puzzle out what happened. That being said, the way the play was put together was impeccable, all of the elements worked well together to make a very visually interesting piece.
Music played a big role, with an upbeat suspenseful drum playing when the story reached a dramatic point. I think that this was helpful to link the pieces together.
Another interesting technique was the use of multiple devises and a blend of live and recorded scenes. All of the characters had their own computers that followed the action from many different angles. At one point the three roommates interact with characters that looked suspiciously like the three girls. I was completely in awe by how they accomplished this. By using all of the functions on Zoom they were able to apply a video background so they could make it look like they were interacting with themselves.
Though this play had twists and turns at every corner, it’s an amazing example of how Zoom plays shouldn’t be written off, instead should be admired as an alternative art form.
Outside the March- University of Windsor- directed by Griffin McInnes- written by Karen Hines for university students that weren’t able to perform on stage because of the pandemic.
Sarah Carolan 22/05/2021
Thank You For Your Labour – Reviewed by Anna Lynch
Marcus Youssef’s Zoom performance Thank You For Your Labour presents cultural wake up calls to those with idealistic ideas of allyship and solidarity – and should be thanked for its raising awareness of the white saviour complex.
In partnership with the University of Windsor, Outside the March’s Thank You For Your Labour is a refreshing production. It follows the story of four college students as they navigate the perilous subject of race and being allies to people of colour. The beginnings of a new crush and commanding, obstinate friendships also play thematic roles in the play. The online production opens up with two friends, Megan and Emily, as they communicate via the platform of Zoom to prepare for a concert they are hosting in support of Black Lives Matter. As the call proceeds, we are introduced to Tyler who is unintentionally ignorant and clueless. We also meet Alicia, the only person of colour on the call, who is subject to the smothering attempts of allyship made by Megan.
Caitlin Jasulaitis (Megan), characterizes the hypocritical, excessive white saviour of the 21st century. Capturing the spirit of a domineering, dismissive person making many failed attempts of putting everyone at ease, Jasulaitis adds the element of excruciating uncomfortableness, making the performance so memorable. Alannah Pedde portrays the pacifying character of Emily effectively and Brennan Roberts (Tyler) represents the insensitivity of others. Elena Reves embodies the role of Alicia in an undeniably remarkable performance. She plays the difficult role of being the only person of colour in an overwhelmingly white situation, and also accurately highlights the performative activism of the others. This subsequently compels the viewers to debate their own internal views and actions on the matter.
Directed by Mitchell Cushman, the play affords viewers a new and exciting way to view theatre. The production managed to utilise all the features of Zoom, even allowing the audience to choose which part of the story they would like to follow, by enabling them to choose their own breakout room, which was an effective and unconventional way to tell a story. It gave us insight into a tense and hugely awkward zoom call, which felt incredibly realistic, even down to the inside jokes referred to by the characters. The use of music at the end, where all characters eventually performed a piece was a united and unified way to finish the play.
Arguably, the script was at times cringey, perhaps trying too hard to resonate with a younger audience. However, the questions posed – what does it mean to be a good ally? How aware are we of white privilege and its impacts? – cancelled this out by highlighting inadvertent racism and asks us to delve deeper into the misguided happenings of everyday life.
Thank You For Your Labour is an advocative performance, that urges viewers to see themselves in the characters, and is one to watch the next time you’re in the mood for a reality check.
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