On Wednesday 29th September, I was lucky enough to watch the performance Typical Girls written by Morgan Llyod Malcolm and directed by Róisín McBrinn. I found Typical Girls to be very empowering and motivating. The week of the performance I was feeling very low, but the performance encouraged and inspired me to keep on going because after all this is the dream, and the performance was a reflection of what you can achieve with hard work and determination. I thoroughly enjoyed the performance especially because of the incorporation of live music and instruments into the actual performance as this was something I hadn’t seen before and made me feel fully immersed as though I was part of the story. I also felt in particular the use of a Thrust theatre worked extremely well as I really felt I was sat in the recreation room with the other convicts and in fact was part of the workshops. For me the key element that stood out about the performance was the use of media with the song lyrics being shown on a large screen above the performance space and a constant screen throughout the performance showing the spoken lines almost like real life subtitles.
photo- Typical Girls by Helen Murray
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I really enjoy how you manage to pull off a detailed review in a such a short post which is really impressive!
A good review with specifics on what you enjoyed and how it made you feel. :)