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THE CRITICAL COLLECTIVE
A WRITER-FOCUSED THEATRE COMPANY
It's a Wise Child
by Jack Squires
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Annie is worried about her youngest, Rosa. Convinced she’s heading the same way as her dearest son Robbie - the ex-child prodigy who walked out to sea three years ago - she enlists the help of her eldest daughter, the highly intelligent, yet self-centred Rita. Realising her little sister’s issues may be genuine rather than melodrama after being asked the impossible, wannabe actress Rita begrudgingly takes a more unorthodox approach to avoid Rosa’s imminent emotional breakdown.
Performed entirely around a bath by a cast of two, ‘It’s a Wise Child’ is a humorous and insightful piece of new theatre exploring themes of family, suicide, and the struggle that often comes with the pursuit of art.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
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11th February 4pm, Nottingham Lakeside Arts
(For UKYA City Takeover: Nottingham 2019)
The Cole Porter Cookbook
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Newly-weds, Bryony and Martin, have just bought their first-home in an ‘up-and-coming’ multicultural borough of the city transformed by hip bars, retro boutiques and vintage fairs. But the trendy new neighbourhood is not entirely what they had anticipated. The house is rickety, their new neighbours battle eviction and many of the locals seem less than desirable. As frustrations and paranoia escalate, their marriage and liberal values are tested to reveal deeper prejudices and a sinister solution to their problems begins to present itself.
