Crush - Theatre Review

What: Crush When: 22 May - 2 June 2017 Where: The Owl and Cat Theatre Written by: Rob Young Directed by: Isobel Sommers Performed by: Mardi Edge, Seb Muirhead, and Fiona Scarlett Sound by: MBRYO Seb Muirhead and Mardi Edge Crush is the last show in The Owl and Cat Theatre's 'Storm In Cup' season. A fast paced comic drama, the choice is strong after a season of serious dramas and traumatic topics which, whilst important conversations for us to have, has at times been gruelling emotionally. As enjoyable as Crush is, it is a surprising inclusion to The Owl and Cat program given they pride themselves in only producing world premier plays. I say this because whilst it is true this script has been adapted for Melbourne ( Young resides in the UK), the play originally debuted in 2011 in Finsborough. It will be interesting to see if this is a change of direction for The Owl and Cat or just an aberation in their usual programming paradigm. It is a bit unfortunate