People Show 130 : The Last Straw

‘Waiting for Godot for the post-truth age’ (The Herald), People Show’s 130th show The Last Straw challenges audiences to consider the dystopian absurdity of modern communication. Confined in an unidentified space, a man and a woman are trying to pin down some facts. Hurried along by relentless content, stricken by disasters and facing problems varying vastly in scale, how do we know where to focus? How do we know what’s true anymore? With the facts literally shredded on the floor, we observe these people as they navigate love and loss as it intersects with the complexities of today’s world. Darkly comic, visually stunning and with breathtaking sound, this show was devised and previewed at Ovalhouse, London in February 2017. Since then it has been performed at Brighton Festival, Camden People’s Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Summerhall) and was nominated for the TBC Offie Award for productions that defy traditional categories.

‘An electric piece of absurdist theatre’ Total Theatre

★★★★The Herald

★★★★ 1/2 A Younger Theatre