REVIEW: This Is Not About Me

REVIEW: This Is Not About Me

Rating: 5 out of 5. A strikingly inventive exploration of intimacy What is intimacy? Is it awkward? Is it exhilarating? Is it something that will inevitably hurt? Is it negotiation over micro-powerdynamics, or a zero-sum game? Written and designed by Hannah Caplan, and directed and dramaturged by Douglas Clarke-Wood, This Is Not About Me acutely explores the shifting meanings of intimacy through Grace and Eli, a pair entangled in an intricate, l…

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME review by thespyinthestalls at Soho

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME Soho Theatre ★★★★ “an assured and inventive debut” We are housed, it seems, in a Fisher Price Activity Centre. With writer/designer Hannah Caplan’s hand-made staging, there are multitudes of textures: flaps that open, macramé cobwebs, hiding places for puppets, fuzzy felt objects, hand-stitched graffiti and dangling string. The ceiling is brushed cotton, the walls winceyette. It is soft, busy, tactile. A little Bagpuss, eve…