Birdcage Thursdays - Theatre Review

What: Birdcage Thursdays When: 2 November - 12 November 2017 Where: fortyfivedownstairs Written by: Sandra Fiona Long Directed by: Caitlin Dullard Performed by: Sophia Constantine, Sandra Fiona Long, and Genevieve Picot Set by: Joanne Mott Lighting by: Rebecca Etchell Sound by: Raya Slavin Sophia Constantine and Genevieve Picot Theatre is being kicked and dragged into the 21st century by original thinkers and people (mainly women in my opinion...) who are eschewing the standard tropes of narrative dominated story telling, moving beyond affective performance making devices, and going straight to the heart of experiences with what I like to call post-truth theatre. Sandra Fiona Long is one of these intrepid trail blazers and tales such as Birdcage Thursdays , playing at fortyfivedownstairs this week, which embody script and performance as equal partners is leading the charge. Long's writing is deceptive in that, on the page, they appear finely crafted hyper-realistic