Monday, October 19

Tag: ThickSkin

It Walks Around the House at Night – Hull Truck Theatre
Yorkshire & Humber

It Walks Around the House at Night – Hull Truck Theatre

As if I hadn’t jumped out of my skin enough on Tuesday evening, while watching the ghostly It Walks Around the House at Night, at Hull Truck Theatre, my worst nightmare came true. You see, there was nothing between me, on Row A, and a black, floor-length curtain through which anyone - or anything - could jump out and, shudder, get me. My imagination was running riot. Sure enough, halfway through the scary performance (a ThickSkin production), I heard a rustle nearby and my no-longer-imaginary figure emerged in the pitch dark. I managed to stifle an embarrassing scream - it was a fellow theatregoer popping out, I assume, to spend a penny. Her reappearance a few minutes later confirmed my assumption. Phew! Taking my seat a few minutes before the start, gave me time to peruse the sta...
Peak Stuff – Traverse Theatre
Scotland

Peak Stuff – Traverse Theatre

Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre’s reputation as the Capital’s go-to venue for cutting edge, experimental and thought-provoking new work can only be enhanced by this belter of a play from award-winning theatre company Thickskin. Touring England for the last month, the Scottish premiere tonight of Peak Stuff, by young writer Billie Collins fairly fizzes along with new ideas and brilliant acting not to mention superb lighting and set and spectacular video design. Stage centre, on a raised LED-edged plate Meg Lewis takes us on an often-overwhelming journey, through the eyes of three characters, Alice, Ben and Charlie. All consumers, and all consumed to varying degrees by the world we live in today. Teenager, Alice wants to poke a stick into the wheel of fast fashion, Ben is hiding from reality...