Stage Review ALL YOU NEED IS LSD

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George Potts

REVIEW:


This is a new comedy written by playwright, >link rel="canonical"href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/29/leo-butler-playwright-all-you-need-is-lsd-interview-david-nutt">Leo Butler and is based on his own observations and life experiences in regard to recreational drug use...based too, on his participation in LSD trials in recent times. Consequently, All You Need Is LSD is part history; part exploratory; part questioning, and part super trippy.





Annie Fitzmaurice



Jack Hunter and Sophie Mercell

A perfect, creative match to team with theatre company Told by an Idiot and have their wild and eclectic approaches on-board so to address the many variables of the subject in-hand plausibly - and what an accomplishment it is to arrive at a piece that is so highly entertaining at the same time!

This play is a lesson in LSD - 90 minutes of educational facts and fiction delivered super fast, utilising the theatrics as they go, in one massive 'designery' effort to educate as well as entertain.

It is extremely difficult to deliver such a show well, but you will be impressed. Impressed by such a versatile and talented cast of four whose genders are opposite sometimes, and who switch characters and costume while delivering their speeches and movement at such dizzying speeds. The bespoke, multi-functional, set design is a marvel too and the worker behind scenes is a valued contributor.

My plus one on the night liked the show much more than I, however I rate it high for many credible reasons, I just felt, due to elements in the script mostly, the piece a little overly ambitious with some scenes not quite working. What it did do, was encourage discussion and debate on the issues along with my partner on the way home; and generally this means theatre has delivered whenever this happens. Recommended.

Cast: George Potts, Sophie Mercell, Annie Fitzmaurice, Jack Hunter

Review by theatre critic, Debra Hall who attended press night at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham

All you need is LSD is touring to: Unity Theatre, Liverpool; Tobacco Factory, Bristol; The Lowry, Salford; Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

The Cast of All You Need is LSD - Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Told by an Idiot theatre company