REVIEW: If We Had Some More Cocaine…, Vault Festival ✭✭
If we had some more cocaine, then maybe the play would have seemed a whole lot better. But we didn’t. Cue Carole King…. ‘Up on the roof’.
Georgia de Grey
REVIEW: Windows, Finborough Theatre ✭✭
Overall, however, Windows is a worthy but rather torpid outing for a family who have been ignored professionally for 85 years
REVIEW: Superhero, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭
I am going to give nothing away about the ‘plot’, because it’s just so deliciously ingenious and I don’t want to rob you of a single moment’s pleasure
Drink, Drugs And Homosexuality Feature In New Old Red Lion Production
If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You, a new one-act play developed out of The Minaturist’s 10th Birthday last November, will be presented at The Old Red Lion Theatre in September . The debut play of John O’Donovan, If We Got Some More Cocaine looks at gay love between two young men who haven’t seen much love in their short lives. A backdrop of violence, bravado and small-minded attitudes hangs behind this desperate rooftop drama. Ireland was the first country to legalise gay marriage by public vote last year, an exceptional turnaround considering homosexuality was only decriminalized by the government in 1993, after having their hands forced by the European court of human rights. If We Got Some More Cocaine… examines the defences and residual stigma associated with such a dramatic change in public perception in a short space of time, and the … Read more
