Drama Review ; Mudlarks

On the 17th of October me and my class mates went to see Mudlarks at the bush theatre, it’s written by an upcoming script writer named Vicki Donoghue. The play was a tragedy and a comedy which was set in modern day on the river bank of Kent. I expected the play to have allot of swearing in it because it’s 14+ and boys their age tend to swear allot, however sometimes when they swore it had a moving effect on yhe audience, from the title I interpreted that it what have muddy set.
The play was about 3 boys named: Wayne Charlie & Jack who’d committed a crime and where hiding in a mud bank from the police. Then they get into a feud; Jack no longer wanted to live that lifestyle as he wanted to focus on his education however his friends weren’t supportive and unfortunately ends up stabbing him. This resulted to him not being able to live with himself & committing suicide, leaving Wayne alone.
The staging had traverse seating which added to the tension whilst allowing us to see the audiences’ reaction and coud see how others interpreted the play, some understood it and could relate other were snotty. Which in both ways worked; those who looked down on it was exactly the reason why they were trapped in the system of ‘’ getting bad job and getting a girl pregnant’’.There was no interval which showed they had no escape and because it was sent in modern days it was really eye-opening. Furthermore because it was in traverse we felt that we were really involved which added a more intense feel to it. we were the barriers we were almost the reason why they couldn’t escape; society has failed them and because there were two options [seating on both sides] it represented how in life there are two options. In addition to this tiered seating which the meant we were able to see them and it went from low to high and the irony of that is the stage get low and the eat gets high.
The set helped communicate at particular times because when the play started you could hear police