Gigi & Dar
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nick Hern Books
Published:24th Oct '24
Should be back in stock very soon
'Private Gigi. One Direction awaits your commands.'
A roadblock. Two young women armed with machine guns and Nutella. Days away from finishing the army.
Gigi has a secret. Dar dreamt she'd be shot today. And there's a strange vehicle heading their way… Well, that's okay. Nothing ever happens here. Right?
A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive, Josh Azouz's play Gigi & Dar was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Kathryn Hunter.
'Surreal, very funny... an anti-war message through off-kilter comedy... It's a bit Becketty – two characters waiting around – and a bit Pintery in the humour it finds in a black situation. And it's pretty great'
* Time Out *'Sharply relevant... a scalpel-sharp, tragi-comic delve into the dangerous mundanity of the theatre of war... devastatingly effective'
* The Stage *'Brutal but balanced, with complexly drawn characters... invites us to consider what happens next after the suffering'
* Broadway World *'Absurdist tragedy mixed with gleeful comedy, with a dash of lurking Pinteresque menace'
* Reviews Hub *'Fantastically engaging and funny with savage undertones'
* London Pub Theatres Magazine *'Remarkable... resonates deeply... truly impactful'
* Theatre & Tonic *'A stunning piece of theatre that manages to be confrontational and compassionate all at once'
* There Ought to be ClowISBN: 9781839044021
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
Weight: unknown
88 pages