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BU21 – Lower Marsh Arts Club
London

BU21 – Lower Marsh Arts Club

This ensemble forces the satire, tragedy, and hypocrisy of Stuart Slade’s BU21 directly into the faces of an audience seated in an intensely packed space. The charge in the room is not built up slowly over time—it is raw, immediate, and electrifying from the opening moment. The narrative explores the aftermath of a catastrophic terrorist attack in which a commercial airliner is brought down over Fulham. The production feels so instant that you can practically see the flames engulfing the performers as they recount witnessing the crash and processing its devastating impact. Director Karen Holley places the audience on the same plane of vulnerability as the actors, transforming this intimate staging into a confrontational, direct conversation. Stripped of elaborate sets or heavy dr...
Causa: The Trial of the Illegal Potato – Lower Marsh Arts Club
London

Causa: The Trial of the Illegal Potato – Lower Marsh Arts Club

A small basement room in Waterloo, with bare brick walls and a simple lighting rig was the venue for Causa: The Trial of the Illegal Potato, one of the many shows in this year's Lambeth Fringe Festival. The first hint that this show wasn't going to be a tightly put-together piece came as the audience waited outside as the start time came and went with no information on what was happening. Starting nearly twenty minutes late wasn't an auspicious opening. Juana, a Peruvian woman living in London, gets homesick for Causa, a traditional potato dish. When she realises that the yellow potatoes she needs to make it aren't available in the UK, she tracks down someone who can get her a seed potato so that she can grow her own, precipitating an ecological disaster. Described as an 'absurdi...