Rebecca Humphries is fearless in Hampstead Theatre's Blackout Songs ✍️ This immersive, energetic two-hander surely points the way forward for the theatre ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🟠 FionaLondonarts
, the Hampstead Theatre received the news of a 100 per cent cut in money. It was a brutal but not entirely unexpected announcement: this new-writing theatre has been struggling for some time.
Those with long memories point out wistfully that this basement playing area is far truer to the spirit of the original Hampstead Theatre, a lovably cramped and ramshackle portable cabin that was the crucible of creativity for talents such as Mike Leigh.could be the epitome of Peter Brook’s famous dictum about theatre needing only an “empty space” to conjure up an entire world.
The first scene sees Him and Her – we learn the characters’ names only at the very end – scarper from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to go out and enjoy their “last one ever”.