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Tag: Sorcha Corcoran

Duet For One – Frinton Summer Theatre
20Aug By Samantha CollettNo Comments
South East

Duet For One – Frinton Summer Theatre

Watching a play about someone struggling with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is not the first thing you think of when you go to the theatre, but then this is the beauty of the medium: at times, it is challenging. I’m sure most people would agree MS is a terrifying illness. There is, as yet, no known cure for this chronic autoimmune disease which affects the central nervous system, specifically the brain and spinal cord. In ‘Duet for One’ we watch as Stephanie Abrahams (Coco Azoitei) struggles to come to terms with her diagnosis. Her MS symptoms mean her illustrious career as a concert violinist have been cut short in her early 40s, and now she must try and find new meaning in her life. Dr Alfred Feldmann (Alan Cox) is the psychiatrist who has taken on this unenviable role. You w...
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No Strings Attached – King’s Head Theatre
28May By Jessica BattisonNo Comments
London

No Strings Attached – King’s Head Theatre

“You asked ‘who are you then?’ I don’t think I know the answer to that.” The debut play by Charles Entsie marks the King’s Head Theatre’s return to live performances after 436 days. Directed by Aileen Gonsalves, the audience are exposed to, and reminded of, the lengths gay men feel they must go to hide in the closet. Sorcha Corcoran’s skeletal car structure against a concrete backdrop, set in an underground car park, brilliantly highlights the claustrophobia felt by the two men. At very different stages in their lives, they are equally lost in trying to find themselves, “tired of just surviving”. The play is riddled with their anxieties, distraught and pain, despite attempts to suppress. Utilising Gonsalves’s own method, of the audience feeling what the actor does in each moment, ...
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