Paul T Davies reviews Character Flaw at Greenside @ Nicholson Square as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Character Flaw
Greenside @ Nicholson Square
5 Stars
Philipa Dawson is a queer artist with ADHD and she has created a show in which she welcomes us into her mind and her world. It is informative, entertaining and perfectly structured, performed with warmth and honesty.
Particularly strong is the use of railway announcements to demonstrate the many tracks she has in her thoughts, and her inner voice is called Jean and she constantly interrupts the monologue and puts Pip on a different track! Equally strong is Pip's anger at the waiting lists for diagnosis and that we really DO need humans at booking offices to help people who need support at train stations.
Whilst being highly entertained I learnt a lot about the condition and glad that the super focussed aspect of ADHD created this piece. It's a little gem.
Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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