The Glitch Archives - North West End UK

A sixty-minute fever dream that feels more like babysitting a very hyperactive child than spectating a professional theatrical performance, writer and performer Giovanna Koyama’s incomprehensible antics convince that, in the case of Back to the Moon, comprehension is majorly overrated. She is relentlessly charming and possesses an infectious confidence that lends itself to a script that is quirky more than it is coherent. Selwin Hulme-Teague’s direction is competent and occasionally creative but falls short of the spectacle demanded by Koyama’s writing and writhing. Sensational sound design by Yuri Furtado does a lot of heavy lifting where the story (or lack thereof) occasionally sags. Fortunately, the brevity of the play allows little time for minds to wander, despite the meanderin...

Performed in a small space at The Glitch, this devised performance was an intimate piece set in a ‘rehearsal room’ with two actors practicing a scene with two sisters discussing their mother who had recently had a fight with them. It is as if we are with them and apart of the creative process as their character’s adapt and shape a scene of a play they’re rehearsing. The performance will stop as one actor will question why this line is here, whether that would be a true response and how thoughtless the mother seemed to be. They lead discussions about theatre and its reason, the purpose of understanding our own trauma and the hilarity of being apart of an opinion but one’s only contribution is writing a play and moving on from it. The actors are really in their element here, shaping this tex...

Tag: The Glitch

Back to the Moon – The Glitch

Forgiving (my mother) – The Glitch