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David Byrne calls for urgent state support for young playwrights, particularly those from minority or working-class backgrounds
The first season of programming under the venue’s new artistic director David Byrne has just begun
There’s something mesmerising about watching a good mimic. And Aimée Kelly, who plays fetish photographer Irina Sturges in Soho Theatre’s Boy Parts, is a very good mimic. Across the 80 minutes of this one-woman performance, she inhabits the bodies of dozens of characters, each a carbon copy of the worst kind of person: oleaginous city
This is a thoughtful examination of an intricately complex character, and it’s always a good thing when an eighty-minute show feels more like forty-five.
A London production adapted from Eliza Clark’s debut novel refuses to justify its unreliable narrator’s violence, but lacks narrative depth and complexity.