Us/Them
Summerhall
13 August 2016
5 Stars
Book Now The 2004 siege of Number One school in Belsen by Chechen separatists is in danger of fading from Western memory. This outstanding production by BRONKS ensures you will not forget, and you will always remember this production. The genius of the show is that the performers, Gytha Paramentier and Roman Van Houtven, perform as children presenting a morning assembly. They chalk out the school buildings on the stage, sing patriotic songs, and are gender competitive in their desire to tell the story " correctly". The effect of propaganda and the demands of shaping the story in a way acceptable to the authorities are clear. Their physical performances are outstanding, the staging highly inventive. Balloons become bombs, string restricts the space, the terror is worked out as a maths calculation. Haunting and mesmerising, this is the best the Fringe has to offer- a devastating piece.
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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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