LondonTheatre1

London Theatre: Tickets Reviews | News | West End | Off-West End | UK Touring Productions

Mamma Mia The Party Tickets
  • Home
  • London Musicals
    • Plays in London
    • London Theatres
      • Matinees
      • Seating Plans
      • Ambassadors Theatre
      • Duke of York’s Theatre
      • Fortune Theatre
      • Harold Pinter Theatre
      • Lyceum Theatre
      • New Wimbledon Theatre
      • New Wimbledon Theatre Studio
      • Piccadilly Theatre
      • Richmond Theatre
      • Trafalgar Theatre
  • News
    • Interviews
  • Reviews
    • Ballet
    • Cabaret
    • Children’s Theatre
    • Circus
    • Comedy
    • Dance
    • Immersive
    • Music
    • Musicals
    • Opera
    • Plays
    • UK Show News
  • ATG Tickets
    • Alexandra Theatre
    • Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
    • Brighton Theatre Royal
    • Bristol Hippodrome
    • Edinburgh Playhouse
    • Glasgow Theatre Royal
    • Grand Opera House York
    • King’s Theatre Glasgow
    • Kit Kat Club London
    • Leas Cliff Hall
    • Liverpool Empire
    • Manchester Opera House
    • Manchester Palace Theatre
    • Milton Keynes Theatre
    • New Theatre Oxford
    • New Victoria Theatre Woking
    • New Wimbledon Theatre
    • New Wimbledon Theatre Studio
    • Princess Theatre Torquay
    • Regent Theatre Stoke
    • Rhoda McGaw Theatre
    • Richmond Theatre
    • Stockton Globe
    • Sunderland Empire
    • Swansea Arena
    • Victoria Hall Hanley Stoke
  • Dancewear
  • Newsletter
Home » Reviews » Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me at Kiln Theatre | Review

Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me at Kiln Theatre | Review

May 28, 2021 Last updated: May 28, 2021 4:49 pm By Roz Wyllie

Amy Trigg is a glorious storyteller and Reasons You Should (n’t) Love Me is an exuberant example of how powerful a one-woman show can be.

Amy Trigg - Photo by Marc Brenner.
Amy Trigg – Photo by Marc Brenner.

Trigg plays Juno, and a cast of contributing characters, showcasing her range as an actor and her ability to seduce an audience into investing heavily in their stories.

Juno has spina bifida, uses a wheelchair, and from the very beginning of the play she engages us with her charm, warmth and ability to laugh at the world and herself. Juno is relentlessly upbeat, with a smartly cynical sense of humour, but there are hints of a dark side, an attempted suicide when she was eight, the ongoing physical pain and her loneliness.

We meet her friends, Mel, Kev and Simon who all feel carefully nuanced and real. We follow her ambivalent ‘romance’ with the emotionally absent Kev and her adolescent infatuation with Justin Rogers ‘the most beautiful human on the planet’ and their frustrated attempts to connect.

Jean Chan’s set design is perfect for this play, from the dramatic opening to the way the Capri Sun box transforms from hospital to party with the help of some clever lighting design by Guy Hoare.

Charlotte Bennett’s direction is spot on, keeping pace and energy so that the 85 minutes of monologue are full of motion but allowing for still moments when the narrative demands it.

This is a play about longing and loneliness, friendship and frustration. Juno is Immensely relatable and resilient and Trigg proves herself versatile as both a performer and a writer.

4 stars

Review by Roz Wyllie

For a long time, I didn’t know how it’d work. Or what I’d be able to feel. People would ask me if I could have sex and I’d feign shock and act wildly offended whilst secretly wanting to grab them by the shoulders and be like “I don’t know, Janet!”

Juno was born with spina bifida and is now clumsily navigating her twenties amidst street healers, love, loneliness – and the feeling of being an unfinished project.

Winner of The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020, Amy Trigg’s remarkable debut play Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me is a hilarious, heart-warming tale about how shit our wonderful lives can be.

The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, Paines Plough, 45North and Kiln Theatre’s
REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME
Written and performed by Amy Trigg
Directed by Charlotte Bennett, Designed by Jean Chan, Lighting Design by Guy Hoare, Composer and Sound Design by Elena Peña.

26 May 2021 at 7pm
at Kiln Theatre
269 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7JR
https://kilntheatre.com/

Musicals by Candlelight Tickets

My Fair Lady at London Coliseum

It’s a show of its time. Well, it isn’t really – it’s a show first produced in the 1950s, with this production placing the action in 1913. The set … [Read More...]

Lift at Southwark Playhouse | Review

The whole narrative in Lift is almost totally implausible, at least to me, until the penny dropped about two-thirds of the way through. The central … [Read More...]

Three Decembers presented by Opera della Luna

“Three Decembers is the finest modern opera that I have seen.” So wrote Chicago reviewer Tom Williams, having seen its premiere in 2008, and I can do … [Read More...]

MISSION by David Watson at The Big House | Review

There’s a surrealness to Mission that the production’s own script readily acknowledges, with more than one character admitting, separately, that they … [Read More...]

Chicago The Musical at New Wimbledon Theatre | Review

In June 1988, Bob Dylan set off on what has become known as “The Never-Ending Tour” and apart from a break due to the pandemic, it’s still going 34 … [Read More...]

London Theatre 1 and London Theatre One are Registered Trademarks Copyright 2022 www.LondonTheatre1.com
By using our website you’re confirming that you’re happy to accept our use of cookies.
Privacy Policy & Cookies - Advertising - About Us - Newsletter - Contact Us

As an Amazon Associate our website receives a commission from qualifying purchases from Amazon.