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Speechless
Opens: 05/08/2010 Closes: 02/10/2010
UK Tour
Experiencing non-acceptance and bullying, a pair of identical twins of Caribbean descent withdraw from their social environment. The teenage girls reject any communication with adults and respond only to their own profound and vehement relationship. The affecting true story, based on Marjorie Wallace's bestseller The Silent Twins, eventually assumes a tragic dimension.
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The Telegraph“A gripping, thought-provoking, poignant 90 minutes...” This is a mesmerising account of the notorious case of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons, who stopped talking to adults during childhood and became locked in a state of strange, symbiotic and increasingly suffocating reclusion...
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The Independent“A riveting play...” But the tragedy is not entered as special pleading: it's a story of stark and stunning oddness, played out against a backdrop of parental rows, baffled do-gooders and intuitive rage against the exploitation of women...
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Financial Times“In Teale and Brogan’s version, language is both a bond and a barrier...” Gordon and in particular Oyediran as June turn in a remarkable pair of central performances. Yet, the Shared Experience company’s trademark of impressionistic physical performances reinforcing a text is no longer as distinctive as it once was...
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The Stage“A truly remarkable, disturbing joint performance...” Oyediran and Gordon are the reason why this production gets a Stage must see. Structurally I am divided over Linda Brogan and Polly Teale’s TV-style episodic narrative and Teale’s direction wavers as a result...
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MusicOMH“Natasha Gordon and Demi Oyediran are compelling as the twins...” Linda Brogan and Polly Teale’s play creates a plausible picture of the twins’ world but it struggles in its attempts to fully recreate a bond so intimate and intense that not even prison could break it...
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Guardian“A story of how isolation and fantasy can corrode and destroy...” The power of Speechless is that it gives these young women a voice. We see their bitter struggle against an uncomprehending and hostile white world and the battle that ensues against each other...
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Whatsonstage.com“This one has “Fringe First” written all over it...” Natasha Gordon and Demi Oyediran are superb as the twins, sullen and frightening, and there’s a fantastically messy scene change that sets up the catastrophe just perfectly...
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