Play Dead – The Horse Hospital
As the trend for celebrity performers and popular stories continues to dominate the West End, it becomes increasingly important to support and highlight new writing and underground talent. Last week, Nadine Rennie, co-chair of the Casting Directors Guild warned that this commercially driven, fever for the famous is like, “feeding a child too much sugar.”
As the trend towards box office safe bets shows no sign of retreating, it was a bracing thrill to experience Play Dead by Bailey Edwards at The Horse Hospital. This wasn’t a spoonful of crowd-pleasing sugar. It more like a judicious jab of crystal meth, followed by a slap.
Play Dead is a unique, queer, grimly comic modern myth about obsession, addiction, co-dependence and the fragile nature of sanity. It features the author, Edwards ...