Me and My Year of Casual Monasticism – Greenside @ Riddles Court
When Mary (writer Emily Knutsson) becomes single at the same time as a student at Cambridge University, she decides to put one above the other and concentrate on her studies through a year of abstinence, or medieval Monasticism.
The show's conceit begins right from the entrance music (a Medieval Bardcore version of Candy Shop – I know because the same recording amusingly has the same function in the Fringe show I had just come from doing), continuing through to the structuring around the sixth-century Rules of Saint Benedict, and the naming of characters and pseudonyms after religious figures, Christian (Mary, Joseph...) or otherwise (Pan, Poseidon...).
The staging is simple, with Mary moving between the chair we meet her on to the table and the power-point presentation on the sc...