“A gripping play” with performances that “shine” – Check out the stunning reviews for Lunatic 19s – A Deportational Road Trip. and discover why you should make a far more pleasant road trip of your own to see the show. Book your tickets now.
Tegan McLeod’s first full length play to be staged in the UK, Lunatic 19s runs until 3 August 2019 at the Finborough Theatre.
Recovering from a serious car crash, Gracie, an undocumented Latina migrant worker from Kentucky, is tracked down to her hospital bed by immigration enforcement officer Alec. Dragged from hospital, she is chained and forced into a van to begin the long journey to deportation.
Lunatic 19s tells a human story from the heart of the current debate about migration and refugees, while reveling in the brutal surrealism of jailer and prisoner bound together on a road trip to exile and new beginnings.
The two-hander features Gabriela Garcia (West Side Story, Strictly Ballroom, In The Heights) as Gracie, with Devon Anderson (EastEnders, Hollyoaks) as Alec. Jonathan Martin directs Lunatic 19s, with design by Carla Goodman, lighting by Kevin Treacy and sound by Juan Ernesto Diaz.
Playwright McLeod is a native of Iowa City, who moved to the UK, studied English Literature at Oxford and acted with the National Youth Theatre. Her first play, Never Such Rain, which was written when she was just 18, was a runner-up in the Oxford New Writer’s Festival. Lunatic 19s was a runner-up in for the prestigious Papatango Prize.
Lunatic 19s – A Deportational Road Trip runs at Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London, SW10 9ED from 9 July to 3 August 2019, with performances Tuesdays to Sundays at 7.30pm, matinees Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are priced from £18. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!
Review highlights
“Lunatic 19’s – A Deportational Road Trip is a gripping play from a talented playwright. Garcia and Anderson are quite exceptional as manipulator and manipulated “
Arifa Akbar: “Gabriela Garcia and Devon Anderson shine as a prisoner and her guard in a story where the lines are blurred.”
London Pub Theatres – ★★★★
Sara Butler: “Well worth watching for the passionate performances of Garcia and Anderson alone.”
Breaking the Fourth Wall – ★★★★
Michael Davis: “As in all road trips, it’s the journey that’s more important than the destination.”
William Russell: “Gabriela Garcia is wonderfully resilient, uncompromising and tough as a woman accustomed to having to fight her own battles”
Theo Moore: “An excellent dissection of the absurdly vicious and inhumane reality of America’s immigration policies.”
The Blog of Theatre Things
Liz Dyer: “An excellent production, and essential viewing.”
Melinda Haunton: “You need a truly committed pair of actors for this piece, and Lunatic 19s has that, along with tight direction by Jonathan Martin.”
Laura Kressly: “Devon Anderson and Gabriela Garcia give searing performances.”
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