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Wednesday, April 2

Tag: Tobia Rossi

Miss I-Doll – The Other Palace
London

Miss I-Doll – The Other Palace

The stage is set. The lights are rigged. Five archetypal contestants wait in the wings. It’s the live final of mega reality show Miss I-Doll, and anything can (and will) happen. The first hopeful we meet is Mia (Daisy Steere, who also plays all the other visible characters), who starts to tell her expertly honed sob story to the ‘Confesh Cam’, complete with childhood trauma and emotional support pets. Competing against our protagonist to be crowned Miss I-Doll and win the lucrative prize of heading up a charity of their choice are posh girl Veronica, nepo baby Samy Sire (whose resemblance to Dani Dyer is purely coincidence, I’m sure), buttoned-up Christian girl Prudence, and tough disaster-prepper Ren. As Steere depicts all of these contestants, as well as a ruthless Italian prod...
Hide and Seek – Park Theatre
London

Hide and Seek – Park Theatre

Touching on issues like identity, peer pressure, friendship and the negative impact social media culture is having on young people, Hide and Seek doesn’t feel like entirely untrodden territory. Written by Italian playwright Tobia Rossi and translated and directed here by Carlotta Brentan, Hide and Seek charts the course of an unlikely friendship formed by two boys, Gio (Louis Scarpa) and Mirko (Nico Cetrulo) under quite bizarre circumstances. Bullied and belittled by his classmates, Gio retreats to a cave to escape after leaving a final mark on social media. Mirko finds him, and the two bond over their shared role in sensationalising Gio’s disappearance to feed the ensuing media circus, resorting to some fairly drastic measures to twist the story and stay relevant. As their friendship b...