Theatre &Dance
DON’T MISS
Still on and still great
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
WHAT IS IT… A cabaret satire of sleaze in the City.
WHY GO… With filthy jokes and heartbreaking songs, selling your soul never looked so stylish.
à Bush Theatre at Bush Hall. Shepherd’s Bush. Until Jul 30.
Boys Will Be Boys
CABARET CLUBS ARE made for transgression: through the fug of smoke, who can tell who’s playing by the rules? Headlong and Bush Theatre’s co-production of Melissa Bubnic’s play with songs uses the gorgeously atmospheric surroundings of Bush Hall to smash apart taboos, in an all-female satire of the City at its macho worst. Bubnic’s protagonist, Astrid,
is a female stockbroker who’s decided that the only way she can survive in a world of boys being boys is to join them. Kirsty Bushell’s glorious performance makes it feel like Astrid’s only ever a couple of shots away from out of control. She seduces her banking clients with a soulless mix of spike heels, lap-dancing nights out and blokey straight talking.
Faith Healer
BRIAN FRIEL’S MASTERPIECE about a man with an unreliable gift was once called a ‘non-play’. It’s not the sexiest poster quote, but you get what the critic meant. Four monologues are spoken by three characters whose lives are inextricably linked but who never meet on stage. In Lyndsey Turner’s production, each monologue is further boxed in by a curtain of rain. It’s as hypnotic as the ensuing cascade of language. We may not see any interaction
but the characters’ memories are endlessly crisscrossing, cutting a crooked path towards the showdown in a pub in County Donegal. First we meet Frank, an Irishman who’s spent a lifetime vanning it round the British Isles to heal the sick – or not heal them, as has more often been the case. It’s a
Reluctantly, she takes on
wannabe broker Priya as her protégée, scraping off her ‘nice girl’ veneer with a sandpaper of rasping diatribes. Joanna Scotcher’s set design puts lavatory cubicles centre stage; they host a world powered by shit pranks and toilet humour. Amy Hodge’s slick, pacy
production has the cast dancing, sparring and dragging it up in a brilliantly raucous parody of banking life. There’s something depressingly predictable about the grim gender politics of this deeply sexist world. But as with all the best cabaret
shows, it’s all about the pain at its heart. When Astrid drapes herself over the piano to pour out a song of heartbreak, she looks utterly, horrifyingly alone. ■ Alice Saville
A gorgeously melancholy production of Terence Rattigan’s classic. àNational Theatre. Until Aug 17.
THE TRUTH
Dazzling French playwright Florian Zeller continues his West End takeover with this sharp adultery farce. àWyndham’s Theatre. Until Sep 3.
CUTTIN’ IT
This vital story of female genital mutilation is
unexpectedly witty and tender.
àRoyal Court. Until Jul 30. BARBARIANS A barnstorming trilogy of
world-class contemporary dance from Hofesh Shechter Company. àSadlers Wells. Jul 6-8.
masterfully unhurried performance by a wild-haired Stephen Dillane, last seen dallying with supernatural forces as Stannis Baratheon in ‘Game of Thrones’. You’re charmed by his crumpled magnetism, and sympathetic to a man cursed with unpredictable artistry.
But his partner Grace, re ov r from a terrible trauma in a London bedsit, introduces a new dar nes And Ron Cook is fantastic as h s hiis manager Teddy, the third po nt o the triangle – the witness to,
to, and
custodian of, all the damaged loveove.. Meanwhile, Es Devlin’s design looks like a huge game of pick-a-stick, a nice metaphor for the instability of memories. You can’t tak up your own story without
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dislodging all the others. ■Bella Todd
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WHAT IS IT… A meandering tale of faith and memory.
WHY GO… To be blown away by a masterful piece of storytelling.
à Donmar Warehouse. Covent Garden. Until Aug 20. £7.50-£37.50.
CATHY COME HOME
Filmmaker Ken Loach’s
heart-rending 1966 story of homelessness is staged by Cardboard Citizens. àBarbican Theatre. Jul 5.
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BOYS WILL BE BOYS: HELEN MURRAY, FAITH HEALER: JOHAN PERSSON
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