Im making a decision. Im changing things. This is it.Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted; Danny and Charlotte; its time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it.A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London; where life is what you make it. The rapid fire words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world; sound-tracked by an exhilarating score.The drama mixes rap-style poetry delivered with microphones and self-reflexive addresses to the audience.A play about love; life and losing your mind; and the first play from one of the UKs most exciting performance poets; Kate Tempest.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A play by the father of realismBy Israel DrazinHenrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is considered an important playwright and the ldquo;father of realism.rdquo; His parents went bankrupt when he was eight years old. He stopped school at age fifteen and worked in an apothecary for six years. These events affected his later plays that focus on social issues such as incest; venereal disease; poverty; and conflicts with town leaders. He wrote his first play at age twenty-one.Many people consider this 1886 play; which still appears in theaters today; Ibsens best play. It was one of Sigmund Freuds favorite plays because of hidden emotions percolating below its surface; deep sexual desires; naiuml;ve idealistic yearnings to help others; gripping guilt; male dominance over women; and feelings of being driven; as if by demons.Critic Martin Essling recognizes this and adds; "the continuing power and impact of Ibsens plays springs from...the immense hidden and mysterious power" in the "coexistence of the realistic surface with the deep subconscious fantasy and dream elements behind it" such as the symbolic racing "white horses" that the plays characters think they see.Johannes Rosmer; an idealistic clergyman left the ministry after his wifes suicide; renounced his faith; isolated himself in his estate; but felt he must persuade people to join him in improving society. Rebecca West; who had cared for his wife; looks after him.Rosmers wife recognized the impracticality of Rosmers dream and tried to extinguish it. She became depressed when she failed to do so and because she saw Rebecca passionately loving her husband; supporting his efforts; and he falling in love with her. She killed herself to free her husband to marry Rebecca. Her death caused Rosmer and Rebecca strong inerasable guilt feelings. Each tried to escape this ghost thats tormenting them; and fail.Rosmer is shocked to discover that although his town people respect him; they dont want him to pursue his dream or become involved in it. Rebecca; like Rosmers dead wife; decides that she too must make a supreme sacrifice to help him.Playwright George Bernard Shaw saw Rosmer as an "unpractical country parson;" who was "meddlesome...who regards the ennobling of mankind as a sort of trade process of which his cloth gives him a monopoly." Rosmers ideas were; as those of many idealists; vague; practically incoherent; based on notions of "purity." Shaw saw Rebecca as "a clever woman who pictures a noble career for the man she loves; and devotes herself to helping him achieve it." But is this abandonment of self good?Womens role is significant in this drama. Critic Janet Garton saw the events reflecting Ibsens view: "In Ibsens plays; as in the society of his day; a womans chances of self-realization are largely dependent on the attitude of the men nearest to them; and it is the reaction of the men which is the key factor in deciding the outcome (to Rosmers wife; Rebecca; and women generally)." Since this perversion of the female is often true today; since the psychological elements driving Ibsens characters drive many people today; and since the play is very dramatic; people will enjoy reading and seeing it.