Award-winning Play Skin A Cat To Tour UK
Isley Lynn’s critically acclaimed play Skin A Cat will tour the UK in September – October 2018.
Isley Lynn’s critically acclaimed play Skin A Cat will tour the UK in September – October 2018.
Despite the intensity of the piece, Brutal Cessation is peppered with a dark wit which, judging my Thomas’s other Fringe play, Dust, is a trademark of her writing.
Milly Thomas’s savage new play Brital Cessation explores the violence in relationships, expectations of gender and what happens when we;re no longer in love but refuse to let go. Following the story of a rotting relationship and the purgatory that follows, the shows asks: Is having no reason to stay a reason to leave? Laced with dark humour, Brutal Cessation is a unique exploration of traditional power play as the actors swap roles throughout the sixty minute show, offering a refreshing perspective into both men and women’s experience of victimhood as their reality becomes emotionally and physically unsafe. Brutal Cessation explores how violence, suggested or actualised, can so easily pervade our everyday lives, sometimes without us even realising it. Offie-nominated Lydia Larson (Skin A Cat, Vault Festival and The Bunker) and Alan Mahon (If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You – Old Red … Read more
There is a lot, in fact, in the writing – and delivery – that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the audience for that other form.