‘It is unfortunate that the lack of a bit of lighting, music and a simplification of ideas held the play back so much’ Paul Hardwick ★★★★★

Singularity ★★★★★

Brasenose, Wednesday 25th November, 7.45pm,
Review by Paul Hardwick

Singularity, a play written by the director Florence Gamberton, depicts an Oxford ménage a trois, and the resultant musings of the characters. The play opened promisingly with an intriguing scene in which Lauren Stephens, a family photographer, narrates a portrait in tableau. Nerves and forgotten lines broke the dramatic rhythm of the following scenes, but the cast rallied and pulled off an ending as good as the beginning, returning to a photographic tableau. Cuppers can be a very steep learning curve and it is unfortunate that the lack of a bit of lighting, music and a simplification of ideas and motifs in the script – ultimately more time – held the play back so much.