6:2 Devised Practical Performance

Under the title of ‘Ridiculous’, two audiences were invited to see the 6:2 devised practical performance in the drama Studio, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. The afternoon audience, made up of students and teachers, saw a fast paced comedy performance which looked at the breakdown of common sense in the media and wider society as seen through the eyes of one man wrongly accused of sexual harassment at his child’s school. The evening audience, watching entirely the same performance, took away much more of the darker side of the show, the Kafka-esque desperation of the main character, the closing in of the tabloid media on any whisper of paedophilia. The two different interpretations of this Brechtian tour-de-force are all due to the skill of the performers involved (Adam, Alistair, Arpan, Luke and Matthew) who were all, through drama, song, pastiche and narration, able to take their differing audiences on interestingly different journeys.