A swinging sixties story of unconditional love from the UK’s leading full mask theatre company arrives at Stantonbury Campus on Wednesday (Feb 22).
It’s 1966. The record player’s on, her hair’s bobbed and eye-lashes curled: for seventeen year old Susan, life is an adventure waiting to begin. But what happens next turns everything upside down, and its repercussions will last for decades to come.
Step into the wordless world of Vamos Theatre for this bitter-sweet story of mistaken morals and broken hearts, 45’s and beehives, where sexual revolution proves a hard and rocky path to tread.
Funny, heart-breaking and human, The Best Thing, explores the moral clashes brought about by the 1960’s sexual revolution and is based on true experiences of women who had to give up their babies; and those of the children who were given away, during a decade when being an unmarried mother was seen as morally suspect.
The Best Thing’s reviews have been universally positive in their praise for a ‘funny and fearless’ production which tells an important story in such an accessible way.
“The mask work is terrific... the storytelling is always wonderfully economical, too, with the swinging – and not so swinging – aspects of the 1960’s revealed through action, music and fashion…We may have heard this story before, but Vamos make it seem fresh and necessary all over again," wrote Lyn Gardner, writing in The Guardian.
Its visual style also makes it accessible to deaf and partially deaf audiences, without the need for signer or captions and it is suitable for over 12 years.
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