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The second play in the Lion and Unicorn's Gaea Festival also unfolds in prison but it is survival, not sewing, that concerns the cellmates in Jane Shephard's 'Nine'.
Two girls, chained to opposite sides of the cell, are alternatively removed for vicious beatings. As each one returns, the other tries to talk their companion back to life. The shorthand they use to describe their experience is frighteningly economical: 'They didn't do any work inside.'
Mary Mallen and Emily White's writhing response to the beatings is intensely raw and tough to endure. But, despite this show's undoubted visceral impact, the anonymity of these girls makes it too easy to walk away from 'Nine', battered but not bruised.
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I'm always looking for something new, something challenging and this latest play from "Spartan Dogs" does not disappoint. I
There was nothing on the TV, as someone had stolen ours in the riots! So we headed over to Kentish town for a show recommended to us by some friends who had seen it and wouldn't stop talking about it. To shut them up, we went to see it and (I was expecting it not to live up to my expectations) Instead there was an assult on my senses and after an emotion ride, we were left amazed, dumbfounded and in a state of shock.
I felt their pain, their journey through hell and back and using language to help them come to terms with their grim outlook. Its a tragic look at how torture is perpetrated through certain regimes, how fear controls and grips us and we cling to the smallest diversions to focus on something else.
The play is very filmic and unusual for a stage play, I felt like I was in the cinema, watching something horrific about to unfold. The suspense and drama was steered beautifully by Mallen and White.
We didn't see anything graphic, just the suggestion and the anticipation was just frightening. I found that the anonymity of the girls was vital to support their struggle against the system, this machine of systematic beatings and rape. a crime which is perpetrated against many women and men, around the world, has a clear and defined message, which is echoed by the notes of the play. Society gone mad.
It seemed an apt play to see during this time of political and social unrest, where we could go one of either ways. An intelligent play by some truly talented actors
NINE is a London Premiere and well worth seeing for a little seen playwright, who has produced a corker! Well done to the production, although a hard and emotionally gripping play, we loved it!
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