LOVE AND INFORMATION (Silk Street Theatre/Guildhall School of Music and Drama)***

 

By Dave

Link: https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/summer_2021/love_and_information 

Available until: Livestreams on Saturday 1^st May at 7.30pm.

Love and Information seemed like a bit of an odd title when I first heard about it but after watching the show, I think it not only describes the show perfectly, it’s a pretty good description of life too.

Of course life isn’t just about love and information but it does play a much bigger role than I realised. We go through life sharing information with other people. Sometimes they want the information, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes you tell them too little and sometimes you tell them too much. Sometimes they understand what you’re saying and sometimes they don’t. We give the information in whatever way seems like the right way and the reaction we get very often does depend on love, whether that’s how much they love us or how much they love whoever or whatever we’re talking about.

THE AFTER DINNER JOKE (Greenwich Theatre)****

 

By Emma 

Link: https://greenwichtheatre.org.uk/events/the-after-dinner-joke-online 

Available until: On demand until 11.59pm on 31^st March

The After Dinner Joke wasn’t anything like what I was expecting based on the title. There isn’t very much about dinner and all the humour is very dark. But it was still really good.

ESCAPED ALONE (Theatr Clwyd)***

By Cal

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XDgLRg1kA

Available until: Theatr Clwyd productions are usually available for about 48 hours so probably until the evening of 5^th December. But don’t quote me on it.

It took me a little while to get into this. I did start to get into it eventually, but the play is so short (fifty minutes), I was more than halfway through by then.

It’s the story of four elderly ladies who meet in the garden for a chat and that’s a bit outside my experience. At first, I had a bit of trouble working out who was who and relating to what they were talking about, and there were some confusing moments where the subject was abruptly changed. I think that was because the play is supposed to be several afternoon meetings which are merged into one long scene, but I wasn’t sure.