What were you doing on 9/11? And, if you were in London, on 7/7? I thought about this recently when watching Stuart Slade’s excellent new play BU21.
BU21 – Trafalgar Studios
Stuart Slade’s Black-Mirror-dark London-centric BU21 delivers six interconnected young Londoners’ reactions to a terrorist attack on the city from the burns victim to the white van man who got a book out of it.
Re-review: BU21 – Trafalgar Studios
I enjoyed Stuart Slade’s BU21 massively when it played the Theatre503 early last year but I hadn’t intended to revisit the show – sometimes the memory of it is plenty sufficient.
BU21 – Trafalgar Studios
How would you cope in the aftermath of a terrorist attack? That’s what Stuart Slade’s brutally honest play explores through the lives of six very different personalities.
BU21 – Trafalgar Studios
Much like the play’s own traumatised characters, Stuart Slade’s BU21 feels precarious, but ultimately achieves great depth through cathartic honesty. The intimate six-hander, now playing at Trafalgar Studios after a successful run at Theatre503, tells the story of six people who have been scarred by a terrorist attack on flight BU21 (a fictional attack that takes place in the very-near future).
BU21 – Trafalgar Studios
Stuart Slade’s BU21 has transferred to the West End’s intimate Trafalgar Studios. The ideal setting for a piece that showcases the spectrum of human emotion in the aftermath of a fatal terrorist attack.
NEWS: ‘Terrorist attack’ play BU21 transfers to Trafalgar Studios
After a sell-out, award-nominated run at Theatre503, Stuart Slade’s BU21, a play about “some sort of massively catastrophic end-of-the-world shit going down”, transfers to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios 2 for a limited season in the new year, running from 4 January to 18 February 2017, with a press night on 11 January.
Text of the Day: BU21
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
BU21 – Theatre 503
Powerful new play about a terror attack on London has strong passages, but is a bit too frantically humorous.
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UPDATED 20 December 2016: BU21 transfers to the West End’s Trafalgar Studios 2 for a limited season from 4 January to 18 February 2017. Click here to book tickets. So you’re watching a play – Sophocles, Seneca, Shakespeare, Webster, Sarah Kane, whoever. You’re witnessing some hideously traumatic event – old guy having his eyes ripped out, kids dismembered by their mum, …
Review: Cans (Theatre 503)
The reputation of Theatre 503 as London’s bubbling crucible of new writing is further enhanced with Stuart Slade’s Cans, a two-hander set in a cluttered garage. Like all 503’s work, the journey from page to stage is satisfyingly swift, supported with decent production values and some fine acting, so Cans may be the first full-length […]
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Review: Cans (Theatre 503)
The reputation of Theatre 503 as London’s bubbling crucible of new writing is further enhanced with Stuart Slade’s Cans, a two-hander set in a cluttered garage. Like all 503’s work, the journey from page to stage is satisfyingly swift, supported with decent production values and some fine acting, so Cans may be the first full-length […]
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