ROSEWATER (Tramp)*****

 

By Aashiq

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnHq07HDm4

Available until: Unknown

I love seeing the one-word titles of Philip Ridley’s The Beast Will Rise series and trying to guess what it might be about. It could be about anything. There’s a flavoured water called rosewater. It can be used in recipes or on your skin or hair or it can be used for a perfume or aromatherapy. Google says you can also buy it in Waterstones, but I think google is lying. It’s always lying. Unless there’s a book called Rosewater, I suppose.

CACTUS (Tramp)****

 

By Cal

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

Available until: Unknown

Trigger warning: Descriptions of physical violence (no visuals)

Philip Ridley started posting monologues at the start of lockdown. Some sources give the series the title of The Beast Will Rise, but this isn’t mentioned in the video description. Thirteen were posted in the first few months of lockdown, I believe all by different actors, and the last two were uploaded three days ago. This is the fourteenth.