Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Sep 3-9)
A fictional murder in Brighton, a real murder in Malta and why, at 1am this morning, I felt I could use a drink. PLUS: Scarbados review
It’s back-to-school time. I always feel like this in September, though it’s years since I had anything to do with the education system. We might, or might not, have a few weeks left of stolen summer but for me this is the annual moment to buckle up and knuckle down.
The Autumn brochures have landed. And we’re in a timewarp — so many of these shows were strangled at birth in Spring 2020 and are now being resurrected. One such, which I’ll be tuning into, is Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats (Sep 2-4, £12), which is being livestreamed by Hull Truck on Sep 3 (£10). Forgive the company’s puerile name — they began life as performance artists. This is the very grown-up story of how Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit took a trip to Malta to do a ‘secret Brexit play’ in front of the many British exiles there and encountered corruption, a deadly migrant crisis and politically inspired murder.
I saw a couple of things over August. …