'The Play's The Thing'
In the past six weeks, I've seen three interesting productions for my drama courses. Here are my thoughts on them. Decade , Director -Rupert Goold, Headlong, St Katherine’s Dock I went to see this for my Theatre, Performance and Ethics course at Uni. My tutor told us it was going to be three hours long and, despite myself, I inwardly groaned. I love a good show as much as the next person but, for some unknown reason, when I go to see a play knowing it’s going to be a long one, I expect to get bored for the majority of it. Maybe this is because, I must admit, I do have a poor attention span at times. However, despite my expectations, I was enthralled for pretty much its entirety. Made up of about twenty short plays written for the production, Decade looks at the ten years that followed the attack on The Twin Towers on September 11 th 2001 from the rise in islamaphobia to conspiracy theories to the guilt and grief of those that were left behind. These short plays were split up a